Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem more like Death Valley than Commonwealth Avenue today as 2183 qualified runners and countless unofficial crashers battle high temperatures and muggy heat in the Boston Athletic Association's 80th Marathon...
...weather is anything like it was yesterday, the marathon field faces a scorching 26 miles and 385 yards starting in the small town of Hopkinton and ending in front of the Prudential Tower on Hereford Street...
Averaging 85.5 m.p.h. over the 162-mile marathon, Regazzoni won last week's West Coast Grand Prix. But the 72,000 spectators who paid from $12 for a bleacher seat to $1,000 for a hotel balcony view enjoyed more than just a road race. The two-hour Grand Prix was the climax of a three-day combustible fiesta, and TIME Correspondent David DeVoss was among the participants. Explained former Maserati Racer Carroll Shelby as he blissfully sniffed a passing cloud of hydrocarbon: "This is a spectacle...
...more swinging member of the Woodstein team. "Carl," Redford told him, "Errol Flynn is dead." Thereafter, as Bernstein puts it, "Redford got on the script in a concentrated way." He squeezed a couple more revisions out of the miffed Goldman, who was eager to get on with adapting his Marathon Man novel for the screen. Yet another writer was brought in for a polish job, though the script remained a problem. A lot of what is on the screen now was finally improvised by the actors and Director Alan Pakula on the set?with Redford calling Washington five...
What's more, Ambler has something that I've never encountered in a one-author marathon. Most prolific scribes have annoying catch-phrases that they use over and over, or favorite weird words. You get to feel you're on to them. But Ambler has the effortless writing skill of a British education. His style is sure and undistracting--it goes down easier than lemonade in August. By the gallon...