Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fancy Food and Confection Show, held last week at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. As the estimated 30,000 visitors shopped their way around 400,000 sq. ft. of floor space, eyeing and often sampling the wares of 729 exhibitors, it was clear that a marathon peripatetic nosh was under way. , Looking for products that will tempt big consumer dollars this fall, the professional shoppers lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether it was the finest Scottish salmon and Italy's best Parmigiano-Reggiano or dismal Aussie Pie, which...
Mike Dukakis thrived under this demanding regimen. At Brookline High he was president of the student council and lettered in three sports: cross country, tennis and -- believe it or not -- basketball. As a senior in 1951, he ran the Boston Marathon and finished 57th. But his brother Stelian had a nervous breakdown while a student at Bates College. "He recovered but never completely. There was always a certain amount of instability there," Dukakis says. "Nevertheless, he was my brother and we were very close, even though at times it was a difficult situation to deal with." Stelian was killed...
...presidential race has come to resemble a marathon encounter session: long periods of tedium punctuated by embarrassing personal disclosures. The latest revelation came last week when Kitty Dukakis, 50, the seemingly self- assured wife of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, publicly enrolled in the Betty Ford school of political candor. Her secret: 26 years of mild amphetamine dependency that ended in 1982 after she secretly entered a drug- rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota...
...Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took the wheel of his own 300 ZX in another division. Cruise, who described his leg of the race as being "smooth as silk," drove for the first half of the three- hour marathon before handing off to a teammate who finished 14th in a field of 42 cars. As for Newman, he came in seventh in a field of 44 contenders. Looks like the kid still has a few things to learn from Fast Eddie...
...French Canada. In April of this year, Mulroney and the provinces hammered out a delicate agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" and permitting it a larger degree of autonomy. Yet some premiers soon had qualms over the favors granted French Canadians and forced Mulroney into last week's marathon renegotiation. By sunrise, there was accord on provincial rights, and the premiers signed the constitution. "Today," said an ecstatic Mulroney, "we welcome Quebec into the constitutional family...