Word: walkathons
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...rest of the trip was almost wholly ceremonial. After the obligatory stop in Paris at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
Lawton M. Chiles Jr., 44, Florida's self-styled "progressive conservative" Democratic Senator, won election four years ago after staging a 1,000-mile, cross-state walkathon. As a member of the "Class of 70," a small group of freshmen legislators bent on reforming the Senate, Chiles, a lawyer, decries the chamber's inefficiencies and has sponsored a "sunshine" bill that would open most congressional committee meetings and federal agency hearings to the public. "We're hidebound and hobbled," he says. "We're so far behind the state legislature of Florida in our decision-making capacity...
...sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand-up kitchen walkathon on vinyl or linoleum. The price...
...away from the fad it had fielded. The President's own Fitness Council warned of the dangers to the unaccustomed-perhaps even a heart attack. That was enough for portly Pierre Salinger, who had promised he would carry the Administration's banner in a do-or-die walkathon with newsmen. Salinger canceled the hike, explaining: "My shape is not good. While this fact may have been apparent to others for some time, its full significance was pressed upon me as a result of a six-mile hike last Sunday. I have done little walking since then, except...
When the boys are not in class, they link arms in twos and threes and shuffle through the yards and corridors in a kind of endless walkathon. Always there are the unseen eyes of the attendants, and only the best of them rattle their keys to let the boys know they are coming. The keepers' special concern: sex, natural and unnatural. In a brilliant set piece that has the spectral, hallucinatory quality of a Poe short story, Author Bjarnhof tells of a boy who made contact with the well-guarded girls' wing of the institute. Like ghosts...