Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lame-duck Governor, New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca looks suspiciously like a healthy road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler...
...Swados' music, it is eclectic and lacks her own signature. Nonetheless, the stage thrums with salsa, country-and-western, disco and blues. The choreography is basic jogger, marathon-style. Nan-Lynn Nelson has the loveliest voice of the evening, but the entire superbly energetic cast deserves praise for throwing not only bodies into the show but hearts and souls, which is always a sweet thing to watch...
...only new bar that has achieved any kind of success lately is the Mars Marathon bar. Think I'm full of fudge? Well, when was the last time you saw Willie Wonka's Peanut Butter Oompahs...
Washington Star syndicated columnist, Jules Witcover, the author of "Marathon," a massive tome on the 1976 presidential campaign, will speak at 8 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom in the Law School's Austin Hall as the guest of the Law School Forum. In his book, Witcover harps on the decrease over the last century in the number of people who vote in presidential elections. In 1860, 81 percent of the eligible populace turned out to vote and swept Abraham Lincoln to victory; in 1976, only 54.4 per cent of citizens over eighteen made it to the polls. Carter sought...
...marathon four-hour meeting, the ACSR considered several draft proposals of possible actions the Corporation might take to convince banks--either ones in which Harvard now holds investments, or those in which it might invest in the future--to end their support for the apartheid system...