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With the loss of Harvard's top sprinter, Sue Harper, the burden now rests on the shoulders of three seniors: Karen Blount, Leslie Simms, and Cecile Scoon. In the hurdles, Karen Gray will have to constitute a one-woman effort for the harriers, a lonely and impossible task for the returning sophomore...
Only one mind could have produced these plots: that of Ray Bradbury, author of the classic Martian Chronicles and the gloomily prophetic Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury has long been considered one of the great long-distance runners of fantasy and science fiction. But he is also a sprinter; his poignant and ironic short stories have been anthologized for more than 30 years. Bradbury's latest book is a highly personal selection of those works: Martian adventures, nostalgic reminiscences about small-town Midwestern life in the '20s and '30s, and several evocative anecdotes about Ireland. But its best pieces...
...received as coolly as his boycott. But none of the athletes disrupted the proceedings with demonstrations, as rumor suggested they might. Almost to a person, they seemed genuinely touched by the Olympic Committee's efforts to recognize them - and to lift their spirits. Renaldo Nehemiah, 21, the splendid sprinter from Scotch Plains, N.J., spoke for most everyone when he said: "With the people's appreciation, it's not a total loss...
...many hotels, so that returning to a room was as bothersome as boarding an airplane. The Olympic Village, whose counterpart in Munich in 1972 was the target of the terrorist attack in which eleven died, was under particularly tight control. Said James Gilkes, a U.S.-educated sprinter from Guyana: "I'm in the right wing of Building 13, but I can't even go into the left wing. If I want to see someone who's in another building, I can't do that either. You can't even visit your friends...
...lighting technician. He would not only be able to watch the track and field events but also check out his fellow technicians' artistry at the Bolshoi Theater. "If I had to choose between a visit backstage at the Bolshoi and watching Pietro Mennea, the Italian sprinter, run the 100 meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi, but not the 100 meters." The other priority on his list was to take a look at Lenin in his tomb. "After...