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After senior Wiley McCarthy run her first two-mile race three years ago, found herself hooked to the sport...
like many newcomers to sports. McCarthy's first year was one of continuous improvement: she established personal bests just about every time she steeped onto the track. Her forte quickly emerged in the distance events, as she qualified for the Eastern championship in the two-mile indoor and the 5000 meter outdoor...
With just three seconds remaining in the game. Shulman came out for his third and longest attempt of the afternoon, a 38-yard try against the 21-mile-per-hour wind. The ball traveled just half the necessary distance...
...change of leadership in Bonn has not alleviated West German resentment about President Reagan's ban on the sale of U.S.-licensed European-made equipment and technology to the Soviets for the 3,000-mile Siberia-Europe natural gas pipeline. Like Schmidt, Kohl has made it clear that West German companies, such as giant Mannesmann, which has $390 million in pipeline contracts with the Soviet Union, should honor their commitments. That resolve hardened when the Reagan Administration last month announced its decision to sell the Soviet Union 23 million tons of wheat, or 15 million more than last year...
Itaipu is a binational public work of truly pharaonic proportions. More than 640 ft. high, its concrete, earthwork and rock construction stretches for almost five miles across the 2,050-mile-long Paraná River, which divides Brazil and Paraguay. Its central concrete span alone stretches 4,059 ft., more than three-quarters of the entire length of the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. More than 15.6 million cu. yds. of cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that...