Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, will a crowd gather on Hayden Rowe this month to risk shin splints, blisters and coronaries on the 26-mile, 385-yard run from there to Boston's Prudential Center? Because it is theirs: the Boston Marathon, an endurance test that makes a winner out of every runner who completes the course...
Tervainen's two-stroke victory was no fluke. He brings to the tee the tactics of an overeager hammer thrower. Tervainen was the runner-up in the Massachusetts Amateur Championship this year, and won the NCAA long driving contest last year...
...also a hallowed tradition for the previous year's winner to present the green jacket to the incoming champ, which presented a thorny problem of etiquette when Jack Nicklaus repeated in 1966. Nicklaus was once again present in the winner's circle on Sunday, but this time as the runner-up to Watson, because his stretch drive fell short by two strokes...
...short, a splendid debut. Farley's success had its Cinderella overtones as well. Reared in Moscow, Idaho, and the runner-up in the 1964 America Junior Miss Pageant, Farley, 30, has worked primarily in Europe for the past eight years. Though she already had 49 performances of Lulu to her credit, she was engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call...
...Southern California Trojans, led by Olympic star John Naber and teammate Joe Bottom, racked up an impressive total of 385 points, far out-distancing runner-up Alabama. Harvard placed 26th with seven points, six points above the only other Ivy representative, Princeton...