Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear 15 ft. in the pole vault, Cornelius Warmerdam. went on to jump 15 ft. 71 in. and set a record that stood for 15 years. The first man to clear 16 ft. was John Uelses. He did it in 1962, but today he is just one of the gang. Outfitted with twangy new fiber glass poles, skivvy-suited acrobats are soaring to unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry...
...Cornell squad boasts two of the League's ten leading scorers in guard Jerry Szachara and center Jerry Krumbein. Szachara has averaged 18.8 points per game in League play and is the Big Red's big gun. Last month when Harvard beat Cornell, he and his gang sank only a remarkably poor 27 per cent of their shots...
...years -17? more than management offered, 11? less than labor asked. This is roughly a 5% to 6% increase a year, while industry's productivity is increasing only 2% to 3% yearly and longshoreman productivity is actually declining. Meanwhile, the agreement did nothing about the featherbedding "work gang rules" that management claims are holding productivity down. This question was left to what promises to be a nearly endless series of study groups. Even with that victory, several locals dawdled about going back to work until word came from the Administration that President Kennedy was "fed up" with their recalcitrance...
...juvenile delinquent," said Shore, "seems to be trying to fill in a void in his life. If he doesn't get a feeling of worth from the community, he may try and get it through a gang...
...other hand, the psychologist noted that the "gang" manifestation of delinquency is easy to spot of New York City's East Side, but doesn't exist in a suburban area like Newton. And where gangs are found in Boston, they differ from those of New York in a number of ways...