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Outside, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, winces at the blast of heat that is already approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
There is something positively un-American about the Boston Marathon. Sure, it is run on Patriots' Day, which is about as American as a day can get. But a Greek started the whole thing. And Britain's King Edward VII dictated the modern distance in 1908, when that year's Olympic started under his balcony at Windsor Castle - which happened to be 26 miles and 385 yards from the finish line. What's more, in Boston, a foreigner almost always wins...
...Americans never stop trying, and Bostonians never stop loving it. In Boston the marathon is bigger than the Harvard-Yale game - and certainly bigger than all the Red Sox games strung end to endless. Traffic is banished from streets along the route, and 250,000 spectators line the curbs five deep in spots. Newspapers run extras, and TV and radio carry the scene into thousands of Boston homes. Why not? Where else could Sam Oellet, a 59-year-old janitor from Augusta, Me., put on his long-johns and run in the same race with a barefoot 17-year...
...Runner." At the start of the 68th marathon last week, no fewer than 302 "athletes" crowded up to the line in suburban Hopkinton. A motlier crew never trotted down a pike. "I'm trying to get back into shape," explained Konrad Ulbrich, onetime captain of the Harvard swimming team. "The guys at the bar bet me I couldn't do it," mum bled a red-eyed fellow in pajama bot toms. There was a doctor from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, who talked about the "mental and spiritual uplift" of running to the point of physical collapse...
Sophomore Walt Hewlett shook off the aches and pains from last Tuesday's Boston marathon run to cop first place in the two-mile. Hewlet's 9:17.5 timing beat Kelly Somers by five yards...