Word: marathoning
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Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the Olympic gold medalist in the marathon who set a world record last year in the America's Marathon, was named the winner of the Sullivan award as the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union's top athlete...
...late. For Ahab is plotting with his free-market cohorts, the sultan is distracted, and the profit motive looms large in Abyssinia. At the end of the first act (which runs for a marathon 90 minutes), cliff-hanging questions remain: will capitalism turn the sandy Solong into an OPEC nightmare? Will the big-hearted Celia Lips be able to stop the evil Ahab and his mercenary fling, the Countess? Will the Sultan ever discover his own hormones? And will the overfed Ethel land a job with the Chicago defense...
...Addressing 1,800 delegates to the Cuban Communist Party's third congress, including representatives from 100 socialist countries, he vigorously and theatrically attacked rampant waste, mismanagement and indiscipline in Cuba's faltering economic system, still heavily dependent on Soviet subsidies. After two hours of a 5-hr. 40-min. marathon, Castro, 59, called an unusual half-hour recess. Precisely 30 minutes later, the Cuban dictator, who often wears two watches to be sure he is on time, strode onto the podium to continue his speech...
...former Prime Minister, though, ran a savvy campaign, sending musical shows on the campaign trail and surrounding himself with popular national figures, including Olympic Marathon Winner Carlos Lopes. Soares also emphasized his political experience and his achievements, including the country's entry into the E.C. Ultimately, Soares won back support from Socialists who had defected from Salgado Zenha after he won Communist backing. Salgado Zenha ended up with 20.9% of the vote and Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo got just...
...help publicize the event, Herschbach showed movies of last year's marathon in a chemistry lecture. He says he believes that the films have educational as well as advertising value. "The gyrations of the dancers are verysimilar to the movements of DNA," he says. "It'ssort of poetic, don't you think...