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Perhaps the popular myth of virtue triumphing over adversity persists be cause it is true. Angus Mack Gaither, 18, of Thompsonville, Ill., lost his father in 1968. Angus, his mother and his elder brother Jewell took over the management of the family's 400-acre farm. In 1971 Angus' brother had a stroke, leaving him a semi-invalid, and the burden of running the farm fell to Angus and his mother. Angus rose at 5:00 a.m. to do his chores, and some times worked in the fields-raising soy beans, corn, cattle and hogs-until midnight. During...
Burns and Kalal were also impressed by the spectators. Ferris Mack, a freshman from Washington and Lee who didn't finish the race, talked about the lift he got from the girls who lined the streets in Wellesley...
...there was disappointment for Mack, there was accomplishment for Mike Brittin of W & L, a former defensive safety who put himself in an ambulance to qualify for the marathon. Brittin, in the space of two months, has dropped his time from roughtly four hours to the 3:20's--an incredible feat...
...Mack is a freshman from Babylon, N.Y., and he said he tried football in high school and discovered he abhorred the violence. So he started running, and he hasn't stopped...
This afternoon the four from W&L should all finish. Burns should end up just before three o'clock with Kalal, who has run a 2:57:17 marathon, just behind him. Mack and Brittin should reach the Prudential Building later in the afternoon, probably around...