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Saturday's meet between the Harvard men's indoor track team and the Northeastern Huskies had come down to the mile-and two-mile relays, and if the Crimson was going to knotch its first victory over its cross-river rival in more than five years, it needed to win both races...
...despite a courageous comeback by the Crimson mile relay squad, the quatermilers finished a half a second too late and the Harvard men fell to the Huskies...
When Lech Walesa stepped from the portal of St. Brigid's Church in Gdansk last week, carrying a bouquet of red and white carnations, the former Solidarity leader hoped to walk peacefully to the monument of three crosses half a mile away. It was the 14th anniversary of the food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode...
...along an elevated bridge to Canton's ultramodern White Swan Hotel, the slight, blond runner was greeted by Guangdong province sports officials and svelte Chinese maidens in green cheongsams. But for Georgia's Stan Cottrell, 41, the greatest reward last week was simply finishing the 2,125-mile Great Friendship Run he had begun 53 days earlier from the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. "I call this a miracle run," said Cottrell, who held U.S. and Chinese flags as he was presented with a brown cloisonne trophy. "It's a miracle that...
...occasion to know, for last week he started shooting again. "Of course, if I have to run five feet to get my own rebound, my touch deteriorates accordingly." At 7 o'clock in the morning, he lets himself into the Assumption College gymnasium about a quarter mile from his home in Worcester, Mass. Why Cousy has returned to the court at 56 he finds embarrassing to say, confessing to having made "a conscious decision never to play in oldtimers' games," a principle he has violated only in small measure...