Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind the pack that the camera didn't even follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them, then the even more desolating sight of nothing but open track. That is why the lonely figure, isolated as a marathon runner, received the loudest cheers of all. It is also why all eyes except the camera's were trained on the lanky 32-year-old man with dark, long legs and yellow shoes. His was not a telegenic image, just...
Despite the excitement about Discovery's mission, and the talk of the U.S. space program getting back on track, some caution flags were raised last week. "It was an impressive and important first step," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But many of the problems that have been there are still there." Those problems are legion. For starters, the shuttle's complexity and NASA's heightened concern for safety lead many experts to doubt the agency's ability to hold to even its relatively modest schedule of 18 more flights between...
...Indeed she could. On the fifth jump, Joyner-Kersee soared 24 ft. 3 1/2 in., the second best performance of her career. When it was clear that she had won, husband and coach Bob Kersee whooped with joy and joined her on the track for part of her victory...
Running Backs: The Tony Hinz Express was derailed last week against Holy Cross. (Hinz rushed for just 50 yards, half of Harvard's output.) But the Big Engine That Can should stay on track this week. Hinz has 251 yards rushing through three games. After Hinz, Yohe is the Crimson's main running threat. He has 72 yards on the ground...
...complimented the play of Schossberger, Captain Maia Forman, sophomore Peri Wallace, and the Crimson's freshman crew. He hopes that the rest of the upperclassmen can also get their games on track...