Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, Curtis completed the 10,000-meter course in 33:19. Senior John Oja--the Crimson's top finisher at Van Cortlandt Park last weekend--crossed the line behind Curtis in 33:24, with Jon Lewis (34:04) and Brian Cann (34:49) finishing 16th and 18th, respectively...
...winner also earns the right to swim a 200-meter butterfly at the quarter breaks and a 400 individual medley at halftime...
...women's side, Rice's Pam Klassen--an All-American in cross country, indoor and outdoor track--led all the way on the 5000-meter course to capture first-place honors. Klassen's time of 16:55 placed her four seconds ahead of a wave of four Stanford women who swept across the finish line in quick succession...
...Mount Chetif (elevation 7,687 ft.), John Paul spoke briefly, decrying recent terrorist attacks in Karachi and Istanbul as "horrendous and almost unbelievable acts." Then, waving away helping hands with open irritation, he climbed unassisted down and up a narrow, rocky path to pray at a 13-meter-tall stone statue of Mary the Queen of Peace. Told that local villagers hike up from the valley floor every year to hear Mass there, John Paul replied, "Then they must be better mountain climbers than the Pope...
...Dutch crew of two men and one woman waited anxiously in Newfoundland for a month before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey...