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...Colleen, America's sweetheart [from 'Survivor'], has read it and sent us a letter. John Tesh, Pat O'Brien from Access Hollywood, Roger Ebert," Hely gushes. "They're planning an 'E! Wild On' the Lampoon. Teller sent us a letter too but Teller actually sends us a lot of letters...
Then in Rome last year El Guerrouj made that staggering run pale when he peeled the mythical mark down to 3 min. 43.13 sec., almost 1 1/2 sec. faster than Morceli's time. El Guerrouj would have finished roughly 110 m ahead of Roger Bannister, had the first man to break the 4-min.-mile barrier been time-transported to Rome from chilly 1954 England...
...turns 26 the day before the Games start--said he was honored to meet "Monsieur Bannister" and said Bannister's 3:59.4 time on a cinder track in 1954 was the equivalent of about 3:42 today, or a meter or so ahead of his own Rome record. Sir Roger chuckled and thanked...
Apart from cinder tracks turning synthetic, training has changed a little since Sir Roger's day. While he packed his into half-hour sessions of 440-yd. repetitions, El Guerrouj reels out a total of 5 hr. a day at a high-altitude camp at Ifrane, in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, wearing to exhaustion a series of rabbits that try to keep up with him. His coach, Abdelkader Kada, has said, "He needs a coach to tell him he is doing too much, not too little...
Regardless of where one stands on the various issues, one must concede that Bush and his family will return a level of integrity to the office of President. ROGER SHAFFER Canyonville...