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...tells of talking with Paul Volcker about towering interest rates and realizing that they might not seem so high to the 6-ft. 7-in. chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The solution, puckishly suggested Baker (who stands all of 5 ft. 7 in.), is to have shorter men in important positions. His humor helps him to avoid the arrogance that tends to accompany power. He is genuinely well liked, by Democrats as well as Republicans. "When you see him coming you start to feel better," says Colorado Republican William Armstrong...
...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...
...talks her own language which she enunciates very fluently. Understands everything." By Hannah's adolescence, that could no longer be considered a mother's exaggeration. She was far ahead of her class at Konigsberg, and at Marburg University she began a lifelong affair with philosophy, and a shorter, scarcely less passionate one with a philosopher...
Once again, Harvard's biggest deficiency is in the shorter runs and hurdles. Freshman Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson--who set Harvard's indoor hurdles and Pentathalon record last winter--will confine her various talents to the Heptathalon today, leaving Sigrid "Ziggy" Gabler to run in the 400-meter hurdles, and Lenny Yajima to contend in the long jump. There will be no one representing the Crimson in the 100-meter hurdles...
...lightweight eights followed with a one-two finish over a shorter course (4:28) But perhaps the most impressive wie was a 40-second thrashing dealt to Northeastern by Radcliffe's heavyweight junior varsity oars-women (6:56.7), led by stroke and team captain Katherine Butler...