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Until a few years ago, competitive cycling was limited to a small group of European athletes riding outrageously expensive bicycles, but things have changed. Bicycle racing is hot, last summer the first American entered the Tour de France, and even Harvard, the slowest in the Ivy League in this respect, has a cycling team. Harvard's incipient cycling team is the brainchild of David K. Smith '58 development officer in the University Development Office. Smith is the current Massachusetts champion in the 25-mile time trial for males aged 45 or over...
...Harvard's top finisher, freshman Peter Jelley, crossed the finish line in 30th place, 20 spots behind the slowest individual qualifier...
...describes as "mostly TV-channel switching. My idea of aerobics was shaking the popcorn popper, and isometrics was pushing together the two halves of a sandwich." A year ago, however, he took up jogging, and the 30 Ibs. he then lost have stayed off. "I'm possibly the slowest jogger in rural New Jersey," Reed says. "People walking to the store regularly pass...
Some of the second papers now in deepest trouble were slowest to abandon the autocratic attitudes that gave them their character. Morton thinks that troubled second newspapers suffer from decisions they made or failed to make decades ago. Perhaps it is no accident that the papers Hearst owns in Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle are the troubled second papers in those cities. "The Hearst papers have been on a downhill slide for 30 years and are now a third-rate chain," says Allen H. Neuharth. The arrogance of Neuharth's remark comes from his success in building...
Largely because of the high cost of mortgage money, sales of new single-family homes dropped 17.2% from May to June. That depressed the annual sales rate of those homes to 408,000, the slowest pace since April 1980 when the economy was in a brief but sharp recession. In contrast, the best month ever for new dwellings was October 1978, when new homes were selling twice as fast: at an annual rate...