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...once been awestruck that "anyone could be so pretty." Now that the athletes have resumed running and jumping, a number have been reluctant to let Mary up. "Some of us," says Ruth Wysocki, "are relieved that the public knows the Mary we knew all along," the one whom Miler Steve Scott has called "a spoiled baby...
Part of the problem was that his event had no glamorous tradition, no particular identity. Moses was actually a failed high hurdler and quarter-miler who turned to the 400-meter hurdles in 1975 looking for an easier chance to reach the Olympics...
Bunney started out as a quarter miler in high school, but on his coach's recommendation, he decided to give the half mile a shot. "I really enjoy 1500 meters, but it's a bit too long," Bunney says of the change. "It's a different type of tired," he says about the quarter mile, but then again, "It's a longer being good...
When he took up the 400 in the spring of his sophomore year. Jones quickly established himself as the best quarter-miler Harvard has ever seen. His smooth stride, blazing speed and sheer strength made him a natural...
Ursula K. Le Guin's novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Beginning Place, have made her the hottest name in contemporary scifi. The Compass Rose (Harper & Row; $14.95) shows her less a miler than a sprinter. The 20 stories reveal a versatile and far-ranging mind: one tale concerns two research scientists' attempt to decipher the writing of ants; another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended...