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First, I examined a 16-lb. hammer used by Harvard's James Russell. The hammer is a large steel shot attached to a wire which is in turn connected to a handle. When I picked it up, the handle--weighted down by the shot--dug into my palm. Even if I did try to hurl it, I knew I would have damaged my hand. Hammer throwers wear special gloves to protect themselves from this injury...
Then a 16-lb. steel ball rolled onto my foot. I remembered immediately the time I participated in a track meet in my fifth grade school in Austin, Texas...
...events was the shot put. For the first several days of preparation before the meet I would throw the hefty steel object like a baseball until I was told it was against the rules...
...week's end the Conservatives, who had worried about voter complacency and expected to lose hundreds of seats had actually gained 75. The Labor Party was the big loser, dropping 227 seats. The Alliance, the moderate coalition of David Steel's Liberals and David Owen's Social Democrats, gained a hefty 453 seats. The bottom line, according to British Broadcasting Corporation projections: in a general election the Tories would win 340 seats in the House of Commons, Labor 259 and the Alliance 31, with 21 scattered among other parties. "It was a good evening for the Tories," acknowledged Owen...
Since 1900 the names Akron and Firestone have gone together like a matched set of steel-belted radials. Back then, Harvey Firestone chose the Ohio city as home for what is now the nation's No. 2 tiremaker. But Firestone Chairman John Nevin is treading on tradition with his plan to move the head office to Chicago later this year. Nevin's explanation: the Windy City is a financial, retailing and transportation hub. It is also near Winnetka, Ill., where Nevin's family lives in a house he visits monthly...