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...Crimson runners moved out well behind front-runners Beckford and Cook over the uphill first mile. As the teams spread out in the critical middle mile, Linsley, Amble and her teammates Leslie Voit and Diane Jacobson held third through sixth places ahead of a string of five Dartmouth women...
...runners hit the sidewalks in the last mile, the Dartmouth group pushed its way past Voit and Jacobson and began to work on Amble. Less than 20 seconds separated the eight runners as they headed up the final hill, and Harvard needed only to pick up one place to repeat Saturday's one-point victory over Brown. However, the strong Dartmouth squad made its move as three runners caught Amble up the hill, while two others held off closing challenges by Voit and Anita Diaz to secure...
Some, like Marine Second Lieutenant Laurie Glenn Jacobson, manage to have their babies without missing much work. Jacobson, 26, completed a tough five-month course for officers at Quantico, Va., during her pregnancy. "The last couple of three-mile runs," she said, "I came in slower than everyone else." After Jacobson was transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., as executive officer of an ordnance and maintenance company, she worked hard until the day before she gave birth. Her labor lasted just three hours. Said she: "I credit that to the great physical conditioning of the Marine Corps." Another military mother, Captain...
Though most women quit work earlier than Jacobson and Cook, indications are that not much time is being lost because of pregnancy. A 1977 Defense Department study showed that Army women lose an average of three working hours per month because of pregnancy. A Navy study done the same year found that women lose less time than men, partly because of the male penchant for alcohol, drugs and general roistering. Females miss an average of 4.22 days a year, compared with 7.03 for males...
Coach Hunt said he was most pleasantly surprised by the times of the second wave of Harvard runners: sophomores Anita Diaz, Kristen Linsley, junior Dianne Jacobson, and freshman Leslie Voit. These four runners lack experience and should improve as the season progresses, especially Jacobson who ran her best time ever, Hunt said...