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...typewriter, though, Reed is a regular sprinter. A former professor of English, he had published three volumes of poetry by the time his first novel came out last year. Called Free Fall, it is based on the unsolved 1971 skyjacking of a commercial airliner by "D.B. Cooper," who parachuted into oblivion-and popular legend-with $200,000 in ransom money. Reed offers an exciting and altogether plausible account of what might have happened after the skyjacker did his Geronimo. A movie made from the novel, entitled The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, opens next month...
...most part, it is a good story indeed. It commences in 1915 somewhere Down Under in the scenic and arid ranching country of western Australia. There, 18-year-old Archy Hamilton lives with his family and trains with his uncle to be a championship sprinter. Despite having more talent than anyone in western Australia, Archy, like anyone else who has ever been on a ranch or a farm and in a movie, bolts. Finding the opportunity to get away after his first big race in a distant town, Archy informs his uncle-mentor that...
Archy is not alone either. After the race, he and another sprinter, Frank Dunne become "mates" and head off to hop a freight train to Perth, where the underage Archy hopes to slip into the ranks of the Light Horse cavalry regiment. Dunne, as portrayed by Mel Gibson, provides a good foil for the golden-looking and piously good Archy. Sly but good natured, Dunne is an Irishman with little interest in fighting someone else's war but whom Archie finally cajoles into enlisting with remarks like "You have a greater responsibility to go...you're (big Australian twang...
Gallagher, Harvard's long distance golden girl, who posted wins in the 5000-and 3000-meter races, shared the "most outstanding tack performer" award with Princeton sprinter Sally Anderson...
...Kiki garnered national acclaim last year when he led the UCLA Bruins into the final of the NCAA Basketball Championship which UCLA lost, 59-54 to Louisville, his swimming achievements are still respected. In 1969, when he and his sister were swimming for Santa Monica Swim Club, the young sprinter set what is now the oldest-standing age-group record with a 31.70 for the boys' 10-and-under 50-meter butterfly...