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Next door is the domestic terminal of Olympic Airlines. Well, something has changed. The walls are plastered with posters and slogans. "Remember, where there is Communism, there is no Fatherland, Religion, Family, Honor." "The Revolution of April 21 is the continuation of the Battle of Marathon, of Salamis and Thermopylae." "Learn to listen well and for a long time, instead of speaking out of turn." I read incredulously. A few people look at me. I look at them. We all smile furtively...
...marathon meet will be run on a course of approximately two miles, beginning at Dillon Field House, and circling Soldiers Field once Varsity harriers are not permitted to participate...
With 1 a.m. approaching at its marathon meeting, the HUC voted to conduct a series of House-wide discussions involving students, members of the Committee on Houses, and faculty members, "in conjunction with" a sub-committee of the Students' Committee on Parietals, a committee which has said it might be willing to use civil disobedience...
...form of isolationism. For four days, Democratic floor managers steered the bill through an obstacle course of debate and dozens of amend ments, virtually all of them designed to trim foreign aid funds or tie strings to their use. On the fourth night the House went into marathon session...
...four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior), and her ailments and suicide attempts. As a result, she evokes a purgative pity and terror. Her concerts have the will-she-finish suspense of a marathon run, the will-she-crack-up tension of a road race. "Oh," said a woman from Ohio after one performance, "I'm just relieved she made it through the evening...