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Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, has ordered an emergency investigation into the snapping of fiberglass poles during Harvard's track season. Four of the light-weight poles have splintered in a "potentially dangerous" way in meets and practices since the beginning of the year...
...Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports has been considering the dangers of fiberglass poles for several weeks, paying special attention to the "weight rating" which Harvard uses to make sure athletes do not vault with a pole that is too light for them. As a general rule, vaulters like to use the lightest pole possible, since light poles are more flexible and give a more vigorous snap, sending them higher into...
Harvard track coach Bill McCurdy said in an interview that he had never heard of a vaulter being impaled on a pole, but that the Athletic Department did not want to take chances. If the FCAS recommends that the track team stop using the fiberglass poles, McCurdy added, his vaulters would require time to readjust to metal poles...
...cars, complete with fiberglass seats, incandescent lights, two-tone vinyl asbestos floor tile, fans, and picture windows, will each accommodate 322 passengers. Fifty-six of them will be able to sit "longitudinally" while the other 266 stand in the "eight additional inches of aisle space...
...Prepacked bundles of tobacco, wrapped in cellophane or fiberglass, and designed to be dropped into the pipe...