Word: marathoning
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These and hundreds of other improbable events, along with scores of more predictable demonstrations in places like Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, were part of the largest collective outpouring to date of ordinary Americans' worries about the prospect of nuclear conflict. Ground Zero Week, a seven-day marathon of films and sober teach-ins, performances and lectures, was designed to illuminate issues of nuclear strategy and, more pointedly, the ultimate horror of nu clear war. It was conceived and led by Roger Molander, 41, until last year an expert on strategic arms limitation for the National Security Council...
Alberto Salazar's victory in the Boston Marathon last week came in the record-breaking time of 2:08:51. It was an extraordinary performance, but it was no more remarkable than the finish of Guy Gertsch. The Salt Lake City bus-station ticket agent finished No. 985 in the entirely ordinary time of 2:47. But he did it on a broken leg. Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors...
...marathon shuttle began the week amid hopes of a breakthrough. Argentina had removed its fleet from the blockade zone, and long sessions with Argentine President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri and Foreign Minister Costa Mendez had convinced the Secretary of State that the Argentine government was ready to show some flexibility. Haig departed Buenos Aires on Easter Sunday with what he called "some specific fresh ideas." The next day, after an 18-hour flight, he landed in London, where he met with Thatcher, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and Defense Secretary John Nott. Optimism over the "fresh ideas" quickly vanished, however...
Crimson pitcher Ellen Jakovic took her cue from the Bruin mound ace, and in the second game of the marathon weekend, hurled her first career shutout for a 10-0 win over Cornell...
...biggest sports event of this week was not even Harvard-related, but an awful lot of Crimsonites did participate in it. That event was, of course, the 36th running of the Boston Marathon, which was won by ALBERTO SALAZAR and CHARLOTTE TESKE, who overcame the heat and the treacherously hilly course to emerge victorious--Salazar with a new Boston record of 2:09... All told, about fifty Harvard undergraduates, graduates and faculty members run in the Marathon, and although the Crimson ran a list of finishers and their times on Monday, a lot of others were omitted because they...