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Stricker (16:58) turned in the fastest Franklin Park time ever for a Harvard woman. Wiley (17:05) led for most of the race, overtaking Stricker near the half-mile mark of the 3.1-mile course and holding the lead for about two miles. Stricker rallied on the final downhill stretch to overtake her teammate...
...Christopher Redman always thought all forms of public muscle building were unseemly. "I'm a closet exerciser," he says, "but "I'm seriously thinking about coming out." Senior Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety resumed a running program she had stopped some years ago, and recently completed a 13.1-mile half-marathon in an eminently respectable 1 hr. 53 min. Raffety also swims a mile every morning before work. "Swimming and running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian...
Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
...ridiculous go-kart track," sniffed the Milan newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. Thrown up on a parking lot in just 45 days, the 2.3-mile, 14-turn course does bear a certain resemblance to its kiddie cousin. It was built by Caesars Palace, the gaudy hotel and casino, as part of a $7 million effort to establish Formula One racing in Las Vegas. "Everything we do," a Caesars V.P. declared, "is designed to bring in gamblers. Major sports events bring good customers-high rollers...
...missed by a mile...