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...doing everything wrong," he said, "there's bound to be somebody else who can go 17 ft. 6 in. It's all in the fiber-glass pole." Like most top vaulters of the fiberglass pole era, Sternberg was as much a gymnast as a trackman. He worked out regularly on a trampoline to improve his balance and body control, was rated one of the ten best trampoline men in the country. One day last week, he was tuning up for the U.S.-Russian track meet in Moscow late this month by performing a complicated trampoline maneuver called...
Gavin Gilmor was the hitting star for the Crimson, bashing his second home run of the season and getting two singles as well to boost his average to .432. Crimson hitters rapped out eight hits in all, and were given nine walks by Springfield pitchers. Gymnast fielders also helped by committing four errors...
Harvard didn't wait to get started. In the first inning Curly Combs walked and stole second, and Terry Bartolet got a base on balls. When Gymnast pitcher George Anderson tried to pick Bartolet off first, the ball went by the first baseman, and Combs raced in with Harvard's first run. Tom Stephenson singled in Bartolet, went to second on Gilmor's single, and scored while Lee Sargent was grounding...
Like Gagarin. Titov was a copybook example of the new Soviet man. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), ruggedly handsome with wavy blond hair, the cosmonaut had always been better at athletics than books, was an expert gymnast and bicycle racer before he elected to go to flying school and the Red air force rather than college. And like Gagarin, Titov was treated to a hero's welcome when he finally returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with...
...spring recess is an occasion for a national summing up. And last week Senators and Representatives around the U.S. achieved remarkable agreement in their findings: the folks back home like President John Kennedy. They are fascinated by his vigor and by his virtuosity in juggling crises the way a gymnast juggles Indian clubs. But there is little ground swell in support of his programs...