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TEACHER MILITANCY. Inflation has added to teacher agitation as spiraling living costs have negated salary increases. Beginning with a one-day walkout in August in Houston, teachers have struck in 86 communities across the country. In other cities, contracts were signed after marathon negotiations that ended just hours before classes began...
...bell ringing to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth. The decathlon is something more than the hot pursuit of exhaustion, and so, perhaps, is bell ringing, if that is where one's heart lies. As for John Schlesinger's back-and-forthing between a losing British marathon competitor and the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists, it is a tasteless last-minute paste...
Bloody Marys for breakfast, screwdrivers for lunch, more drinks in the afternoon, leave the hotel at 6, makeup at 8, interview, onstage at 10, hamburgers at a diner, second show at 1, drive home at 3, early-morning party, pass out. A rock artist lives like a modern marathon dancer. Janis craved every bit of the action: "Hey, man, what...
...race, however, is run at a marathon distance that most American horses, young or old, find impossible to travel at anywhere near their top speed without falling apart from fatigue. Can Secretariat go the distance? If he can, he may not only capture the Triple Crown but also break the record for the race-2:26%, which is also the track record at Belmont Park, set by Gallant Man in 1957. The Belmont track is extremely fast this year for some reason -possibly because of the unusually heavy spring rains that have packed the surface, possibly because of the particular...
...response, Brandt refused to sign any statement at all. The Germans told their Russian counterparts that the use of Berlin as a pressure point was a central ingredient in the cold war and if the Soviets pursued that pattern there could be no détente. After several marathon sessions, the issue was finally resolved by an oblique reference to the "four-power agreement of Sept 3, 1971"-omitting the word Berlin but reinforcing the Berlin settlement by mentioning its date. That agreement, signed by the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union, provides for free and unimpeded travel between...