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...women were aided by topnotch performances by freshman Meredith Rainey--who took third in the 440-meter race in 57.70 and fourth in the 220 in 26.4--and sophomore Katie Toner, who took second in the two-mile run with a time...
...sophomore Paul Kent won the mile in 4:10.76, while junior James Russell snatched the 35-lb. Weight event with a throw...
...keel, Marshall allows that it has a "shorter set of wings than Kookaburra, which means that there is less drag downwind." The U.S. boat is also extremely fast when headed into the wind -- an important advantage given that four of the eight legs of the 24.1-mile triangular course are sailed in that direction. Just to be extra sure, there is also one no-tech installation in the bow: a bag of garlic, an old Portuguese sailor's good-luck charm...
...couple of years ago, when Stan turned 65 and retired, he and Thelma and two dogs, two cars and a 32.3-ft. sloop moved to Marco Island, a clean, windswept three-mile by five-mile sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico. The surroundings were gorgeous (Marco Island, with the soft brush of its palm fronds sounding like rain in the night, is the sort of place even bona fide Floridians retire to), but full-tilt retirement didn't agree with Stan. He wasn't In the Mood...
...have been marked in large measure by harmony, goodwill and peaceful coexistence." William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, was there watching and vowing that violence would not be permitted. As lawmen in helicopters surveyed the long lines of demonstrators throughout their 1 1/4- mile march, the arrays of state police and sheriff's deputies enforced those promises and prevented the noisy confrontation from degenerating into a bloody clash. When it ended, the civil rights leaders and their newly aroused supporters headed for home to Atlanta, New York, California...