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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. At a time when participation in running events is booming, hundreds of thousands of runners are looking for their next challenge - from training longer, to racing faster, to getting back into form following a layoff or injury. "Running Times" magazine has compiled a collection of elite coaches, athletes and fitness professionals who all provide the reader with the tools to make a personal running breakthrough. This guide covers every aspect of training and racing - from clothes and shoes to endurance, speed, strength and flexibility training and from racing preparation and tactics to rest and recovery. Customized training programmes are included for various distances and all types of speed workouts, as well as injury prevention strategies and guidelines for nutrition and hydration. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Very good. - Letter filling one side of his 10-3/8 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide personalized letterhead with a Fidelity Building address printed at the top. Signed "Harold E. Stassen". Together with a 14-page copy of Stassen's "Statement to the Resolutions Committee" to be presented at the Republican National Convention in Miami on July 29th. Also present is a carbon copy of Agnew's reply. Agnew has penciled "Art" [Art Sohmer, his Chief-of Staff] in the top right corner of the letter. Below Stassen's letter Agnew has penciled notes indicating how he wants the letter to be answered. On the verso is an official stamp showing the date the letter was received. Folded twice for mailing. The bottom left corners of the statement pages are creased. The 3 items were once stapled together at top left. Very good. Stassen congratulates Agnew on his Chairmanship of the Maryland delegation to the Republican National Convention in Miami. He sends Agnew a copy of the statement Staasen is to present to the Resolutions Committee at the Convention on July 29th in case Agnew might want to refer to it. If it turned out to be "appropriate and agreeable for me to meet with the Maryland delegation, I would be glad to do so". He pens a P.S. "You made a lot of sense at Cincinnati!". [Agnew gave a speech at the National Governors' Conference in Cincinnatti, Ohio on July 23, 1968]. Stassen's statement concerns the Vietnam War. He believes it was a big mistake for Johnson and Humphrey to get America so deeply involved in the war and sets out his ideas for how the country should be extricated from this crisis.Harold Stassen [1907-2001] was an American politician who was the 25th Governor of Minnesota. He was the leading Republican candidate for U.S. President in 1948 and considered for a time to be the front-runner. Thereafter he ran for president numerous times, including in 1968, as well as for other offices, and gained a reputation as a perennial candidate.