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Like a walk-a-thon, Cyclists Fighting Hunger, who have now completed four cross-country rides, made their money by getting friends and relatives to sponsor them a few pennies a mile. After 4200 miles, those pennies...
...myself to the stadium, about a mile and a half. Everything was moving in slow motion; I was sweating pretty good." Despite forgetting all he knew about pitching the instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound before"), Gooden struck out Dickie Thon to end the first inning, and 275 others before the season was through (not including the side he struck out in his first All-Star inning). Philadelphia's Grover Cleveland Alexander (227) and Cleveland's Herb Score (245) had lost their longstanding places as the breeziest rookies in the history...
...Write-a-thon for freedom and emigration rights for Soviet refuseniks: commencing at 2 at Harvard's Memorial Church...
...create a stir within the Soviet Union by inundating their government with letters and to awaken student concern to the plight of refuseniks as a human rights issue, not a Jewish one," said Melissa B. Milgram '88, co-chairman of the Hillel committee sponsoring the write-a-thon...
HOUSTON--Phil Garner and Dickie Thon drove in second-inning runs to back rookie Charlie Kerfeld's pitching and give the Astros a 2-0 victory yesterday over the Atlanta Braves...