Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once in the water, men as well as machines need something like black magic to survive the punishing eight-hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...
...have six sports writers. During the fall season, that was adequate for covering four varsity sports. But the winter season has seven varsity teams, and instead of the nine game football season, we'll have to cope with the marathon schedules of hockey and basketball, which face two or three opponents each week...
Mike Berwick, a member of the Harvard cross country team, placed 16th in a field of 170 in the Bay State Marathon run this Sunday in Framingham...
Berwick, who has run for the Crimson cross country squad since his freshman year, is a regular at various Greater Boston Marathon races...
Berwick says he hopes to organize a group of people from Harvard to run in future Marathon races...