Word: marathoning
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...marathon of press conferences and tours, the first U.S. newsmen permitted into Cuba since the invasion were treated to the spectacle of Castro the leader, Castro the soldier, Castro the continental showman. The correspondents had barely unpacked their suitcases when Castro in vited them into his office in the Agrarian Reform Building for a two-hour interview. Next day, it was off on a 14-hour guided tour past cheering collections of collectivized peasants to the Bay of Pigs...
Despite loading to Briggs Hall in a wet baseball game on the Radcliffe Quad last week. Whitman Elliot won the Radcliffe intramural Sports Cup for the 1960-61 season. The atheletes from Whitman Elliot copped first places in the Fall swimming marathon and hockey play offs and in Spring basketball to outscore runner-up Holmes Hall in over all points...
...broadcasts from Cuba came booming in over Florida radios, nearly blotting out local U.S. stations. By flipping a dial on their TV sets, residents of Key West could see as well as hear the spectacle. In an Orwellian marathon lasting five nights running last week. Fidel Castro paraded 200, then 400, finally almost 1,000 captured rebels into Havana's Sports Palace and subjected them to a favorite pastime of the new Cuba, the televised inquisition...
...Others, bundled in sweaters, jumped up and down to keep warm in the 38° chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino...
...mile from the finish line, the road broadened momentarily and Oksanen broke into a sprint that got him by. When he crossed the line in 2 hrs. 23 min. 29 sec., Oksanen was 125 yds. and 25 sec. ahead of Kelley-one of the narrowest margins in the Boston Marathon's 65-year history. "You can get just so much out of yourself," said exhausted John Kelley. "I couldn't get any more." Winner Oksanen wandered off to bathe his blistered feet and explain his victory. "In Finland," he said, "we don't ride around in automobiles...