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...nine-mile mark was a personal triumph for my brother, a sophomore in Lowell House who ran with me the entire way, and me, for it was one mile farther than either of us had ever run before. Only 17.2 miles to go! The crowd responded to our whoops and cheers with more cheers, hand-slapping and orange slices. We would not be so effervescent at the 18-mile mark...
Still spry after ten miles, we cruised into Natick, where the entire town and their second cousins twice-removed had turned out to watch us poor, driven souls run by. To the right of our path in an empty field stood a small, unremarkable paint store with a ten-piece rock-and roll band perched on top. The music was such a boost that the entire pack sped up a full minute per mile, and I kept searching for hidden rock bands along the rest of the route...
...mile mark, we became aware of a dull roar ahead, louder than the usual crowd noise that stretched uninterrupted from beginning to end. At 13 miles, the halfway point in the race, we were in Wellesley, where we funneled through a mass of screaming students who stood cheering in the rain for hours. After that experience I will never have the heart to make a wisecrack about Wellesley again, although one quick-minded student tried to get my brother's phone number...
...mile mark we encountered the first incline. Heartbreak Hill consists of three separate rises set about a mile apart. And contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the hills themselves that made our hearts sink and our legs cry out in agony, but the knowledge that after the last hill there were still six miles left...
...never got to see the aircraft. The big hangar itself, a cantilevered, air-conditioned marvel on Terminal Island at Long Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa Corp. The Goose, moved by tugboat last fall to a site a quarter mile away, has a temporary home in a circus tent. A reporter enters the tent prepared to see a dead whale on a flatcar...