At last April's Boston Marathon, Republic of Korea runners ran away from an international field of 131 to finish 1-2-3. Last week, with another marathon coming up, Boston advised the Koreans to stay away.
What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with...
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