Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then my father built me a regular pit out of sand, and I was hooked." In high school, Hansen jumped 13 ft. 6 in. with a Swedish 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...
...course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race, and as yet have attempted nothing of consequence in the 1964 campaign...
...psychiatrist hardly expected that his report to the College Senior Tutors would catapult him into a national prominence. But he does consider himself a "late bloomer." While at Harvard, Dr. Blaine majored in English and Latin Literature, belonged to the Fly Club, and played football for Eliot House. "I didn't study that hard," he says, "but I worked hard enough to get into the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which I graduated in 1943." After time in the service and three years of general practice in Connecticut, Blaine became interested in psychiatry. He returned to Bellevue Hospital...
...practitioner of the hold-on-for-dear-life, catapult-like technique of vaulting with fiber glass, Pennel used a long, 154-ft. approach "for speed," a high grip on the pole "for a bigger bend." He is aiming now for a 17-ft. vault and a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics. "I don't want to sound overconfident," he says, "but I think 17 ft. is within my reach." One little difficulty may interfere: after last week's meet Pennel noticed a crack in his borrowed pole. "I'm not going to worry," he shrugs...
...field events--the catapult (for merly the pole vault) and the high jump--Harvard will be pressed to score at all. However, Spitzberg, who has shown himself capable of clutch performances in the past, could gain points in the high jump...