Word: marathons
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Last week the immediate crisis was not so much overcome as temporarily alleviated by a mélange of stopgap measures. After a round of emergency meetings, climaxed by a 20-hour marathon session of Common Market finance ministers in Brussels, European governments were unable to unite on the most urgent question: how to revise the exchange rates of currencies that were plainly undervalued. As an alternative to joint action, the dollar values of five important currencies were changed in three different ways...
...Marathon Blast. Gan is not entirely without diversions. Its clear waters boil with bright tropical fish. Tuna can be caught from the pier, and fishing for shark and barracuda is superb. The island has a soccer field, golf course, assorted tennis and volleyball courts and no fewer than 21 bars. The specialty of the island is the "gozomie," a marathon blast that is thrown when anyone reaches the end of his nine-month tour and goes home. Over the five-day Christmas holiday, the men consumed 500 quarts of liquor, 12,500 bottles of beer, and 2,000 pints...
Reflecting an upsurge of interest by Americans in the new China, other invitations poured into Peking. The New England Amateur Athletic Association invited China to send athletes to the Hoi-yoke, Mass., Marathon on June 6. Chinese competitors were asked to join in everything from the U.S. Open tennis championships to the Miss Universe contest. United Air Lines, somewhat precipitously, applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to fly to Canton, Shanghai and Peking...
Author Erich Segal may have been a longtime No. 1 on the bestseller lists with Love Story, but you can't win them all. He panted in 489th out of a field of 887 in last week's Boston Marathon. But, as Harper & Row's pro motion manager must certainly agree, it wasn't a total loss-the 26 miles, 385 yards seemed to be lined with Love Story lovers. Said No. 489 afterward: "The muscles that hurt the most are in the mouth, from smiling back at the people." For Segal the marathon also disproved...
Erich Segal, the famed runner who finished the Boston Marathon last week with a time of under three hours, has quit his teaching job at Yale at least until September...