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...face Yale and Princeton and the Elis refused to give their visitors a pre-race tour of the course. The omens were significant: "Peter's tough," said coach Bill McCurdy, "but not as tough as that oak tree." Johnson had swerved sharply to avoid the tree on a steep downhill and wrenched his back. And as if that weren't enough, the harriers were buried by both their opponents...
...major disappointment was the injury to sophomore Paul McNulty. McNulty, in tenth position after the two-mile mark and, "running really well--I have never felt better," fell down a steep hill and sprained his ankle, which prevented him from finishing the race...
...understands the power of a free press better than Nicaragua's Sandinistas, who overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza two years ago with the help of the crusading opposition newspaper, La Prensa. Under Somoza, La Prensa (circ. 75,000) had paid a steep price for its dissenting views: its reporters were beaten and jailed, its offices were bombed, and finally its unflinching editor, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, was murdered by Somoza's henchmen. When the Sandinistas came to power 18 months later, they promised to create a pluralistic society in which freedom of the press would guaranteed...
...welded rails-no clickety-clack-and concrete sleepers for stability. For safety's sake, since the TGV needs about two miles to stop at 162 m.p.h., there are no level crossings. Nor are there any new tunnels, since the powerful (6,300 kw.) trains can climb gradients as steep as 3.5% at full speed. Since the train moves too fast for the driver to pick up track-side signals, a console in the cab "reads ahead" and provides digital readouts informing him of the speed he will have to maintain...
Some carried tape measures, trowels, putty knives, melon ballers and plant misters. Mostly, the 1,500 people who turned out on Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled...