Word: bending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long straight, Italy's Lorenzo Bandini hit a puddle, skidded and lost control; trying to dodge his wildly spinning Ferrari, four other racers piled up. StiJl another ran off the track and wrapped his car around a pole; a seventh scattered the hay bales on a bend. Miraculously, none of the drivers was seriously injured...
...steel pole, went on to 14 ft. in his sophomore year at Rice University. After that he joined the parade to the catapult-like fiber glass pole and ran into trouble. "It took me forever to get used to it," he says. "I didn't really learn to bend the pole until this year." In mid-May at Modesto, Calif., he hit 16 ft. 4½ in.-and he has not been that low since...
...right idea about things"), and he talks about vaulting as though it were mostly an exercise in practical physics. He grips his 16-ft. Silaflex pole as near the end as possible, uses a long, 140-ft. approach to gain the velocity necessary to give "a maximum bend at the vertical position. I'm trying to translate linear force into vertical force," he says, and he is hard at work on an essay entitled "Compound Pendulum Mechanics of Pole Vaulting...
...Great Bend, Kans...
...Right Time. Quite a few companies have asked colleges and Negro organizations to help them find Negro management trainees. In some cases this is a calculated gesture, a sort of bend-over-backward bow that has been forced by social and political pressures. Says New York University Associate Placement Director Andre Beaumont...