Word: miles
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...left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when I get back to Arizona," said Max. And, with a little tape around his chest, off he went in his twin-engine Piper Aztec on a 33,000-mile tour that should take him to Alaska, the North Pole, Norway, North Africa, South America, the South Pole, New Zealand and Hawaii before he gets home...
Hardin made a strong bid to break away during the third mile, but Shorter came back to take a one-stride lead going up Van cortland Park's legendary Cemetery Hill. But Hardin kept the pressure on. Moving well over the crest of the hill and down the back side to open up a ten yard lead by the final flat stretch. He managed to maintain his momentum over the final 600 yards as his long-time Eli rival faded rapidly. Hardin's final margin of victory, a convincing eighteen seconds, belied the closeness of the battle...
Harvard junior Keith Colburn finished a scant four seconds behind Shorter in third place. Colburn ran the best race of his career, starting strongly and maintaining a steady pace in fourth position most of the way. Throughout the fourth mile, Colburn gradually whittled away the gap between himself and Princeton's Eamon Downey. The two of them matched strides until Colburn turned on his speed in the final 100 yards to edge Downey by a second...
Their goal is a 1,165-square-mile area off the offshore continental shelf, where natural gas is being tapped under water as deep as 600 feet. A collection of 100 offshore drilling rigs, some of them as tall as a 40-story building, are working on leases for which they have paid the federal government alone some $1.2 billion. Pushing slowly out to meet them are complex pipelaying barges that cost as much as $8,000,000 to build and $38,000 a day to operate. The area is "exploding with action," says William C. Keefe, president of Houston...
With a 10-0 record in dual meets and the Greater Boston Crown to its credit, the Crimson harriers are rated solid favorites in today's five-mile jaunt...