Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stubbornly refused to apologize for her stringent measures in a time of crisis, an act of political and personal boldness that seems to have won her increasing sympathy. A recent opinion poll shows that 48% of the urban Indian public now favor her as Prime Minister; the runner-up was Morarji Desai with 19%. Thus she will do better than her rivals and improve on her 1977 performance in the election scheduled for mid-December...
...itch to know what's going to happen next seems ingrained in modern man, and can be valuable, at least to those Wall Street insiders who buy on the rumor and sell on the fact. But journalism's constant anticipation of the news can be like a runner dashing for third without having touched second base. Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked...
...would assume that everything about the subjects of running and conditioning has already been written at marathon length. One would be wrong. For those who have not been rendered glassy-eyed by The Complete Book of Running, fuzzy-brained by Running and Being or stultified by indistinguishable issues of Runner's World, there is a whole new crop of books on running and walking. All amply demonstrate that whatever exercise does for the heart and lungs, it does little for literary skills...
...Traveling Runner's Guide (Dutton; $5.95) is a rather straightforward listing of safe, scenic places to run in 21 cities around the country and may, for the dedicated, be worth carrying along on a business trip. The Runner's Guide to the U.S.A. (Summit; $12.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper) offers information on some 200 distance races, from four miles on up, with evaluations of the courses, the facilities available and the prizes awarded finishers. Target 26 (Collier; $4.95) provides some practical advice for anyone interested in marathons. The book is written in the same style...
...Total Running (Morrow; $7.95), an examination of the "mental and spiritual side of running" that contains such lines as "running as spiritualism is the lifting from your shoulders of an insoluble puzzle." On the Run, by Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski (Morrow; $9.95), shows the great miler and distance runner to be as dedicated and self-critical as every top athlete must be. But Liquori is more instructive on television. Running Back, by Steve Heidenreich and Dave Dorr (Hawthorn; $11.95), is nondramatic; it describes how Heidenreich slogged his way back to health after an auto accident in 1976 nearly killed...