Word: marathoning
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Although they won't have to contact the Guiness brothers about a new world record, a group of Currier House students will sponsor a dance marathon next semester to benefit the residents of a Cambridge housing project...
...Shortening the marathon campaign for the nominations would reduce the numbing effect on the electorate, perhaps lead to higher voter turnout and, conceivably, more thoughtful voting. Shorter campaigns would be somewhat less expensive and might help the working officeholder get as much attention as the full-time presidential candidate. Senate Majority Leader Baker has complained of the difficulty of running against an "unemployed millionaire." In 1980 he was up against three of them: Reagan, Bush, Connally. Carter in 1976 was approximately a millionaire, and had been running full time for two years; all his rivals had demanding jobs...
...years it presided gaily over the chaos that Bostonians call Kenmore Square, welcoming Red Sox fans to near by Fenway Park, students to Boston University, and, on every Patriot's Day in April, weary runners to the last half-mile of the city's famed marathon. With its red, white and blue neon pulsating gaudily above the rooftops, the sign advertising Citgo, the Cities Service Company's trademark, somehow seemed right for Boston; for all its tackiness, the great ad in the sky fitted in. But now a threat looms over the garish and beloved landmark: Cities...
...most serious runner on the Faculty is probably History Professor Charles S. Maier. A couple of months ago he finished the 26.2 miles of the New York Marathon in three hours 46 minutes (winning time: two hours nine minutes). While he was training for the big event he ran 50 miles every week around his Fresh Pond home or near the Charles. "Now that the light has changed," he says, "it's harder to run," so he has cut back to 30 miles weekly...
McCarthy's times in the 10-kilometer events (roughly equivalent to 6.2 miles) have dropped from 47 minutes to 36 minutes--a very respectable accomplishment. McCarthy sees her future in the distance races, and hopes in run a marathon sometime in the future...