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...fourth Olympic team. Long Distance Runner Garry Bjorklund, 25, lost a shoe halfway through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept him off the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, he won an emotional barefoot sprint down the straightaway to finish third and make the squad. Madeline Manning Jackson, a 1968 gold medalist, became at 28 the first American woman to do 800 meters in less than two minutes. Running "on the Lord's behalf," Salvation Army Worker Manning hopes to shave her time of 1:59.81 down...
Harvard's Joe Leondis suddenly came alive, popping on a straightaway 20 footer and a bruising drive, as the Crimson clung to a 26-25 lead...
...hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next to us is a man with a radio who tells us the lap numbers. After the first few places we have no idea who is in what position. The cars...
...popularity of the local Communist Party, Mercouri, a Socialist, is confident that she will be taken seriously. "There is no pretending, no act," she says of her new campaign. "There's a bit of the actor in all Greeks, and they will be able to tell straightaway whether you're genuine...
Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the $300,000 facility boasted a six-lane, one-eleventh of a mile banked Tartan track, with an 80-yard straightaway, as well as accommodations for field events...