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...Crimson triumphs, Hackett's was the most heartening. Shaking off the virus that had shackled him the first two days, the irrepressible distance man seized the lead in the first lap of swimming's equivalent to the mile and gradually built up a ten-second victory margin...
Beckford stayed on the shoulder of Villanova's Bridig Leddy until the last lap of the mile run, when she burst ahead to win in 4:32.3, a new national collegiate indoor record. Beckford's blistering pace knocked more than 16 seconds off the old Eastern record and more than 12 seconds off the Harvard facility record. Beckford now stands as the fourth fastest indoor miler in the world behind American stars Mary Decker and Francie Larrieu and Russian racer Zmira Zatseva...
Beckford also came through for the Crimson in her anchor leg of the two-mile relay. Although Villanova broke the tape to win the race in 8:49.8, the Harvard quartet stroke to second in its best time of the season, 8:59.5. The Crimson squad--Martha Clabby, Becky Rogers, Kristin Linsley and Beckford--and Villanova's team became the first two-mile relay teams in the nation ever to break nine minutes indoors...
...more it costs me, the more I have to work." To cut energy costs, DeRienzo and his wife Mary have turned down the thermostat at their ranch-style house in Danvers, shut off two rooms and installed aluminum siding. But other expenses cannot be trimmed: his daily 26-mile commute has become more costly, and his daughter-the middle of three children-is still running up education bills as she works for her doctorate in psychology at Syracuse University...
Private cars were banned within a 15-mile radius of Lake Placid, and an elaborate bus system was devised to shuttle some 25,000 spectators per day to outlying parking areas. It did not work. Hundreds were stranded for hours in the subfreezing cold, miles from events, motels or parking lots. To help out where needed, the committee set up a cadre of volunteers from the surrounding area. Garbed in bright blue snowsuits with yellow trim, they did their earnest best to make visitors feel welcome. The state police took their responsibilities so seriously that they hauled away an illegally...