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...NOTEBOOK: Captain Dave Randall, who had been using poles of different size and shape, finally got the correct pole and vaulted to his best height this season (14 ft. 6 in.)... Coach Frank Haggerty was unable to attend because he hurt his ankle while leaving the Brown-Harvard hockey game. In the emulate-the-coach department. Haggerty's charges--the middle--distance runners--Serve Ezeji-Okoye, Scott Murrer and Bennet Mulin all injured themselves prior to the meet...
...doubly troublesome that the ranks of the jobless are growing at a time when many of the cushions softening the pain of unemployment have been deflated. Reaganomics has whittled away at unemployment compensation and has tightened eligibility rules. At the height of the 1973-75 recession, for example, more than 75% of the 8.4 million jobless Americans received benefits; last December only 37% of those out of work got unemployment compensation. By eliminating 300,000 public service jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (GETA), the Reagan Administration shut off a source of work that has been both...
...reconstruct its takeoff. The Boeing 737 took 47 sec. rather than the usual 30 sec. to reach its lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also wonder whether ice formed on the aircraft or its engines before it plunged into the Potomac, killing 78 people...
Sabom found that 40% of his random sample had vivid memories of their brush with death. A third had what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...
Without Dixon, the trio of Donald Fleming, Bob Ferry, and Kevin Boyle did most of the ball-handling for the Crimson, and the three were constantly harassed by the quicker Brown defense., "We have good height, they have great quickness." Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin said after the game. "Their quickness won it for them tonight...