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...Sister Marion Irvine, 54, her 5½ years of long-distance running is more than just healthy outreach to the postwimple age. Last December, the Dominican nun covered the 26-mile 385-yard course at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete in two months at the women's running trials in Olympia, Wash. "I won't win there," she admits...
...important factor working against House Republicans is the scant likelihood that they will assume majority status within the next three or four elections, observers...
...students who play high school football, only a scant number will make the college team. The remaining thousands, instead of having learned to be men, as the coaches say, will have probably neglected their educations. It is one thing for an individual to decide he wants to pursue athletics at the expense of his studies. It is quite another for a community like Odessa, Texas, to sacrifice the education of all its children for a game...
...only black, was followed even before he officially announced, and after his successful mission to Syria to negotiate the release of downed U.S. Airman Robert Goodman, the attention sharply increased. After Glenn slipped in the poll standings, more notice was given to Gary Hart. But there is still scant coverage for Alan Cranston, George McGovern, Ernest Rollings or Reubin Askew. Stories about the "second tier" of candidates, moreover, tend to dismiss them as having no chance...
Some lies should not be lent even the scant legitimacy of refutation. But in this case, it is important to realize what a vast falsehood has been advanced--and to recognize that the money taken from hungry children has, in effect, been transferred to the military...