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...Longest Run in Harvard-Yale game: Two weeks. In 1958 Harvard tackle Marty Lefski ate 497 prunes as part of a Pi Eta Club initiation on the eve of The Game. As a result, Lefski did not play in the classic and didn't make it out of the Dillon Field House bathroom until the beginning of reading period...
...rburgring is the longest (14.2 miles), the most difficult (172 corners), and by far the most dangerous circuit in all of racing (nine Grand Prix drivers have died there). Uneasiness over safety at the track had been growing each year among drivers. Before the race, they met to decide whether or not to boycott the event. Niki Lauda voted not to race. Said he: "I felt that to risk a human life just to please the organizers of the race is not right. But the vote went against me, and I decided that I would go along with the majority...
...Hampshire--The state that in 1974 had the longest fight for a Senate seat in history has been spared a similar agony this year, but one close House race has generated some national interest...
...vote here means that if you and nine friends decide to break the Guinness record for the longest basketball game ever played on water, and you decide to do so on the day of an election, you'll either have to reschedule the game or be deprived of your right to vote...
Harvard, meanwhile, has won 24 out of its last 30 games, five in succession, and a victory over Cornell will mark the longest winning streak in Joe Restic's six-year tenure, as well as lift Restic's career winning percentage over the 700 mark...