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...Charles Dvorak held the Michigan outdoor pole vault record in 1900. What was the height of his school standard...
...lifestyle that attracted youthful migrants by the tens of thousands. The Haight, for Time magazine as well as for its residents, came to exemplify the new society that America's young was going to forge; nearly 100,000 people lived in the greater Haight-Ashbury community at its height...
...Ashbury, the movement exploded beyond the bounds of its neighborhood, destroying itself in its own grasp with success yet somehow managing to spread an influence far beyond the San Francisco Bay. The greatest hippie event of all took place two years and 3000 miles away from the Haight's height, at Woodstock, and alternative thought echoed through education and the media...
Like most artists who die at the height of their fame, Robert Capa has acquired a mythical persona which totally distorts the real man in the view of both his admirers and critics. But it was more than his coverage of battlefields which created this myth. Capa himself incessantly worked at building and maintaining this mythical image of almost god-like stature. Robert Capa, who some have called the greatest war photographer of all time, was a man by himself, for himself...
...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...