Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts want us to believe that the problem is purely a technological one, and that it can be solved by the experts in purely technological ways. But the people, tired and tuckered out, know better; they cannot help but know better. When you run a marathon race all day long you get tired out; there is no way around it. You could try to push yourself and discipline your mind to ignore the fatigue, but when there's no pot of gold at the finish line or even no finish line in sight, what sense is there in struggling...
Despite personal intimidation--rocks through windows of School Committeemen's homes, obscene 4 a.m. phone calls, both threatened and real physical violence O children of "reform" organizers and public intimidation trumped-up legal battles and marathon live TV coverage of the circus-like hearing preliminary to the vote to resume the search for a new superintendent--the majority persevered and finally brought Alflorence Cheatham to Cambridge...
Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto...
...usual, this year's screenings-which concluded last week after a marathon 16 days-introduced a worthy film or two, surveyed what is currently interesting or chic on the Continent, and provided a temporary home for the outcasts. Best received were Truffaut's Day for Night (TIME, Oct. 15) and an American movie, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. The home team, indeed, was well represented this year by Mean Streets, Terrence Malick's Badlands (both to be reviewed separately when they are generally released) and James Frawley's Kid Blue, a funny, anarchic western released...
...York Mets knotted the World Series against the A's in Oakland yesterday on three unearned runs in the 12th inning to win the second game, 10-7, and to cap a marathon contest fraught with errors and marked by one significant close call...