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Pole Vault. Olympic Champion Don Bragg has a new world mark to shoot at. Oklahoma State's George Davies bettered Bragg's record by a full inch with a 15-ft. 10¼-in. performance last month in Boulder, Colo. Both men are sure to soar still higher...
...brushed it with his chest once more. But this time the wavering bar settled back and held. For Oklahoma State's George Davies, it was a new world record of 15 ft. 10¼ in. in the pole vault-a full inch higher than Olympic Champion Don Bragg's old mark...
...ready Marines, many of them veterans of Korean fighting and of crisis moves in Quemoy and Lebanon. The crack Seventh Army, massed 150,000 strong in Europe, keeps a cool watch on Berlin and provides the shield for NATO; the Korea-trained 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg, N.C., ready for the next call...
...began to realize that it had been left far behind in the art of guerrilla warfare, and that its then emerging cold war antagonists, Communist Russia and China, were experts. The Army set up the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center in a collection of old buildings at Fort Bragg, N.C. Its first weapons were volumes on guerrilla tactics by such unsurpassed veterans as Red China's Mao Tse-tung and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), who used guerrilla warfare against the Turks in World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass...
...language, fashion explosives out of chemical fertilizer, cut an enemy's throat (Peking radio calls the operators "Killer Commandos"), live off the land. The all-important aim is to elicit support from the local people by promises, threats, bribes, or by any other means. The Fort Bragg school is broadening its training in counterguerrilla warfare, numbers among its students officers from Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. "Once a guerrilla force knows that it is being stalked by hostile guerrillas, its full attention must be focused on the destruction of this immediate threat," says the Army handbook...