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...novel that features an artist working on a 15ft. statue of Christ should be approached with care. There's a lot of potential here for being trapped under a collapse of heavy symbolism. You might also think twice about a book that takes up the moral dilemma of photojournalists who chase after suffering that they can observe but not mitigate. Some ironies have been worn smooth by overuse. And beware all stories in which a world-weary middle-age man finds happiness in the arms of a girl roughly 20 years younger. There are only so many happy fictions...
Dave Randall cleared a personal best of 15ft. 5 in. to qualify for the finals in the pole vault. Once there though, Randall missed his first three attempts at the opening height...
...mile to an area known as "the Hole," behind a large warehouse facing the muddy Buffalo Bayou that winds through the city. There, according to subsequent testimony, they pushed Torres off a 20-ft. dock into the bayou. His body was discovered two days later, floating in 15ft. of water...
...Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski, world record holder outdoors, vaulted 15ft. but could finish no better than fifth. The winner: Tarzan-like Don Bragg, 24, who tied three challengers at 15 ft. 3½ in., but got first place on the basis of fewer misses...
...merely another Cadillac-comforted caricature. He pursued learning as others pursued the black gold. "So you're the Texan who can read," remarked a cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings...