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...times the city's main thoroughfares looked like the site of a weird Grand Prix, a kind of motorcade to nowhere. Climbing aboard bicycles, pedicabs, Hondas, mini-Jeeps, taxis, small trucks-anything that would move -Saigonese sped up and down broad boulevards lined by huge tamarind trees. The hot dry air turned blue with exhaust smoke as the procession wheeled endlessly past the sidewalk cafés where red-bereted French paratroopers and homesick G.I.s once sat, watching the lissome Vietnamese girls stroll...
Aided by a strong tailwind and throngs of encouraging spectators. Will Rodgers took command of the 79th running of the Boston Marathon at the Wellesley checkpoint and sped to a record-breaking victory yesterday, winning in the phenomenal time of 2 hours 9 minutes and 55 seconds...
...York's new Governor, Democrat Hugh L. Carey, brought in Richard Ravitch, a wealthy construction executive, to run the U.D.C. last month after Logue resigned. Carey last week sped a bill through the state legislature creating another public agency whose mission is to bail out the U.D.C. by buying mortgages on its uncompleted projects. The rescue effort will be costly: more than $392 million will be needed by the agency to complete the U.D.C. 's current projects...
...years ago, in an uncommunicable mood. I fled the Currier House dining room with my tray, and settled down in front of a television set. The Lawrence Welk Show came on, and I watched, chuckling cynically, groaning as Welk sped his musicians through a medley of "old-a time favorites." Suddenly a voice came out of the corner of the room. "No don't laugh. Listen to the musicians. I don't like what they're playing, either, but, you know, they really know what they're doing. I turned and there sat this guy with a violin case resting...
...psyched contingent of Northeastern thinclads left Harvard in the starting blocks Saturday afternoon, as the Huskies sped to a 75-43 trouncing of the Crimson at Northeastern's Solomon Track...