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...field events. Both Eddie Cape(22ft. 7 in. in the long jump) and George Ball (47 ft. 2 in. in the triple jump) should provide little competition for the Crimson's Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace (24 ft. and 50 ft.). The Tigers' pole vault and high jumping units do not boast of anything above 15 ft. and 6 ft. 7 in., so neither Blayne Heckel or Mel Embree has much to fear...
...this large effect, the sense of an atmosphere and a mood, which Altman asserts is his primary goal. John Simon '46 has accused him of being a director who can boast of every great director's qualification of skill and sense--except that of having something to say. But Altman resists that intellectual demand: "I don't have anything to say to anybody except to show them what I see. I can't draw their conclusions," he told me. "Of course all the material is filtered through me, and is going to have some shape of mine, but that...
...Knicks, however, can only boast of Dave DeBusschere as a consistently good rebounder. In the final game against the Bullets, Knicks' Gianelli outrebounded Elvin Hayes 15-12, but Hayes dominated the series...
Embree's feat makes Harvard the only school in New England to boast of producing two 7 ft. jumpers. Only John Thomas of Boston University, who owns the world record with a 7 ft. 6 in. leap, and Bill Rom of Holy Cross have cleared the mark from the New England area...
...Penny Stebbins, 34, of Branford, Conn., took special joy from the giant copper beech tree on the vacant lot next to her home. Majestically soaring 60 feet, the century-old tree had become a landmark for the area and a meeting place for lovers. A common boast around the neighborhood was that such trees live as long as 500 years. So when the lot's owners decided to build a house on the property and began cutting down the tree, Mrs. Stebbins launched a valiant holding action. Perhaps taking a hint from the premiere episode...