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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sizing up prospects for the Olympics in Rome next August, nearly everyone agrees that the U.S. has the world's best pole vaulters-and that the highest-flying U.S. vaulters are Veterans Bob Gutowski, 24, who holds the outdoor record of 15 ft. 8½ in., and Don Bragg, 24, who claims the indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But last week in Norman, Okla., a relative unknown vaulted as high as anyone else in track history: John David Martin, 20, a University of Oklahoma junior, cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Goose Flies High | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...face of a stiff wind, the crossbar was placed on the vaulter's side of one of the upright standards-thereby making it just a bit more difficult to brush off. But the vault was still enough to serve warning to Olympians that the U.S., in addition to Gutowski and Bragg, has its high-flying Goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Goose Flies High | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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