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...Crimson could score heavily in the mile if both Jim Baker and Roy Shaw are entered. Shaw, who has run 4:02.8, must be considered the meet's biggest threat to Patrick--the field's only sub-four minute miler--whose best time this year is 4:01. But if Baker joins Shaw, whom he beat in last week's Heptagonals, there's no telling how the race will turn...
...Thursday, the Milton Mothers and the Dorchester Mothers were complaining about how far their children would have to walk to catch a sub-way to go to school. The Kennedy Library was not mentioned once. The whole issue was the MBTA...
...land, more real than real, full of wind-smooth souls and forces which nudge us through life. "Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne. Or, to quote Hunter's epigraph for Desire: "In the vocabulary of the sub-conscious there is a word for every shape and sound that goes unnoticed in passing time. Though we will never speak them, these words define our souls." Desire tries to lure those mysteries, words and footsteps, into the dusty ranges of our senses...
Things have changed in 14 years. When Bannister, a 25-year-old English medical student, crossed the finish line at Oxford's Iffley Road track after his history-making 3:59.4 run and collapsed from exhaustion, he was thought to have done the impossible. Today, Jim Ryun breezes through sub-3:55 miles with seemingly no effort...
Pacing will be perhaps the most vital factor in any race aimed at a sub-four time. Coach Bill MeCurdy has said that neither Baker nor Shaw "is ready to go out and do it alone. Together they could do it any time. They complement one another...