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...early favorite has been track's answer to George Blanda, 43-year-old Jack Foster. Foster, a New Zelander, has a 2:11 marathon to his credit in the past, but with steep Heartbreak Hill looming and with the projected tropical temperatures, look to the runners from warmer climes--the South Americans and Africans...
...burden hits hard at every level. Upper-class families in the cities demand steep cash payments from a bride's family in return for a well-educated, well-connected bridegroom. A young man who holds a job in the prestigious Indian administrative service or the Indian foreign service, for example, can command $10,000 or more in dowry payment. Valuable consumer goods such as refrigerators, television sets and automobiles are commonly tossed in as part of the deal...
...Soviet publications now, just because he knows that a lot of what the West puts out isn't so. And his experience here, only half-a-year old, has made a big difference: even coming from an elite, he is on full scholarship--$6000 a year is a little steep--and that means washing dishes in the Union as a part-time job, something which he says he would have once found "degrading." While expressing no anger at Americans, he notes evenly that "what people throw away in a meal here a whole Bengali family could survive...
...President tired visibly toward the end of the trip; yet in Kweilin, a city famous for its landscapes of jagged hills and misty waterways, he was able to walk up some 300 yds. of steep stone steps to visit the Reed Flute Cave, apparently with no ill effects...
...spectators, the In spots at Innsbruck last week were Mittermaier Mountain and Hamill Hall. At least that is what Winter Olympic officials might as well have called the sites where West German Skier Rosi Mittermaier and American Figure Skater Dorothy Hamill performed. Mittermaier Mountain was the steep slope of Axamer Lizum, where tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians chanted, "Rosi, Ro-si," every time their daredevil streaked by, which she did fast enough and often enough to win three medals: two gold and one silver. Hamill Hall was the Olympic Stadium, where seemingly every American in Austria turned...