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...with firsts in the high jump and the 1000 meter run to cop the title... A day earlier three Harvard thinclads posted personal bests in the annual New York-Boston Invitation Meet. Freshman MARK HENRY won the high jump with a leap of 6 ft., 9 in. In the mile run only a close examination of the photo finish revealed that ADAM DIXON had been nipped by New York's Luis Ostolozaga. But the run attracting the most attention from the Harvard contingent was BUCK LOGAN's 8:44.36 in the 2-mile event. Though only good enough for second...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and rushed toward two blue buses. Colonel Schaefer, however, headed instead toward a crowd of spectators, embraced several onlookers and chatted with them. Did he know them? "No," he replied to a fellow passenger on the bus, "but it felt good." On the 25-mile ride to the hospital in Wiesbaden, one of the former hostages raised his hand and sought permission to ask a question. Another asked whether he could light a cigarette. They were reminded by one of the escorts that they were free now and could do what they wished...
...decorate the desert -specifically, the 5-sq.-mi. Plateau of Hallaoui-with patterns and fields of cobalt blue paint. "Blue," he explains, "because this color does not exist on the earth's surface." Despite impressive credentials -Verame had already festooned a dried riverbed in France and a mile of the Corsican coast-it took the artist two years to persuade authorities to let him undertake his "mad dream." Finally, he got the O.K. from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This month, after twelve weeks of creative effort with as many tons of paint, the "Sinai Peace Junction" opened to mixed...
...devastating floods. After one, the citizens sent an arriving Red Cross contingent home. They would take care of themselves, they said. And they did. To thwart the rampaging river once and for all, they decided to pick up the whole business district and move it half a mile away and 55 ft. higher...
Despos has already found a site for a bigger operation, an empty Amoco filling station half a mile from where he is now located. The total cost of moving there, including new machines and remodeling, would come to about $175,000. But Despos is finding that he cannot afford to borrow the money from his local banker. The Fort Wayne National Bank, where he has been a customer for three years, would have given him a mortgage last October with an interest rate somewhere between 13% and 14%. But the bank insisted on a 30% cash down payment and Despos...