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When a squad wins the 880-yd relay and places second and first (respectively) in the one and two mile relays, one can't argue with the depth of talent and strength of the whole team...
...Yale squad was quick to pay back in kind however as it outran Harvard in the mile relay by 2,43 seconds, finishing in 3:54.59. But when the Crimson's Eva Anderson. Kate Wiley and Pattricia and Grace deFries took command of the two-mile relay Yale and Princeton were left to fight for second place. The Harvard track sters completed the rut in a speedy...
...bathroom, away from any windows. As we huddled there, the clatter of M-16s and Kalashnikovs echoed off the walls of neighboring buildings. Now and then we would crawl on all fours to a window. Below us, the faint shadows of militiamen moved in the gathering darkness. Perhaps a mile out to sea, a U.S. Navy ship cruised past, a gray wolf on a gray sea beneath a hazy gray...
...most important one of all: When the voting starts, will people line up behind Walter Mondale? Despite the gathering momentum of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
...haunts. Indeed, as Challenger appeared out of the blue Florida skies at week's end, it was truly coming home. Touching gently down on the Kennedy Space Center's long concrete runway, within sight of the towering gantry where it had taken off on its 3 million-mile odyssey eight days earlier, the winged ship became the first spacecraft of any nation to end its celestial wanderings where they had begun. From Mission Control, half a continent away, came heartfelt congratulations: "Welcome home. That was a fantastic...