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...highly competitive and dedicated athlete, Schlesinger received little recognition for his efforts before last Sunday. But his list of accomplishments on the road and the track is an impressive one. As a Yale freshman, Schlesinger broke 1972 Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter's school record for the six-mile event. In his senior year, he took first in the 5000 meter race at the Harvard, Yale Oxford, Cambridge meet Two years later, as an Oxford student, he won the same race...
...while, until last March, when the first International Seoul Marathon was held. "I thought 'This is it, Dan, this is your last chance to run a marathon,'" he recalls. So the lanky 5-foot-10 130-pound runner dedicated four months to an intensive training schedule, running 10 miles twice a day and 15 to 20 mile jaunts on Sundays...
...reach their trains, passengers walk a zigzag detour one-third of a mile around the boarded-up building. At the end of this trek is a jerry-built replacement station. "This long walk is for the birds," groused New Yorker Aileen Gravelle, 71, dragging her suitcase along one muggy day. "And it used to be such a lovely station...
...June, 1980, Weld won international recognition in the sailing world by capturing the 2850-mile Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race from Plymouth, England to Newport, Rinnh Island...
Blancy finished first in her academy class of 25, but she says she was still apprehensive when she started on foot patrols near the Charles River. "I don't think the other officers cared that you ran a seven minute mile or finished first in the class". She adds that "everybody is judged out on the street by whether you want a particular officer to come on your call with you Maybe I didn't have to try harder, but I left like...