Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many newcomers to sports. McCarthy's first year was one of continuous improvement: she established personal bests just about every time she steeped onto the track. Her forte quickly emerged in the distance events, as she qualified for the Eastern championship in the two-mile indoor and the 5000 meter outdoor...
...Marine lieutenant from South Dakota with a spotty athletic history, Billy Mills, now 44, came from nowhere to win the 10,000-meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. In the long tradition of turning athletic accomplishment into movie magic, Mills' story is being beamed to the screen in Running Brave. (Mills is a Sioux Indian; running brave, get it?) For the movie, due out next year, Actor Robby Benson, 26 (The Chosen), ran five miles a day for three months. "Runners have a certain look about them," says Benson, "and there's no way to cheat...
...efforts before last Sunday. But his list of accomplishments on the road and the track is an impressive one. As a Yale freshman, Schlesinger broke 1972 Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter's school record for the six-mile event. In his senior year, he took first in the 5000 meter race at the Harvard, Yale Oxford, Cambridge meet Two years later, as an Oxford student, he won the same race...
...scrabble. But instead Brown swings into an ebullient softshoe number, boasting of his car-parking skills; the mood lifts and lifts, and suddenly a clump of leotarded dancers inches and rolls onstage to join him, representing--incredibly--a car, white tires and all. Brown later plays a gas-meter reader whose pastime is to scare sunbathing housewives so that their bathing suit tops fall off; the conspiratorial grin with which he exits obviates any simpleminded sympathy...
...than a year's layoff to finish a respectable 58th in 19:43. During her sophomore year, Gallagher steadily improved over the season to finish a consistent third to Beckford and last year's captain Kristen Linsley. Her indoor record was outstanding also, as she captured the Ivy 3000-meter laurels...