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...Pardee lost out in the high jump at the 6'6" mark to rivals John Hartnett of Princeton and Kim Hill of Yale, but Jack Spitzberg grabbed a tie for fourth to give the Crimson 4 1/2 points for the event. Hartnett was eventually ruled the winner in a jump...
...definition of these political classifications. "For the Republican Party, 1964 has, of course, a great importance. But it is two years away. 1962 is here-with much work to be done. We are like an army that, to launch a great and effective attack, must fight first for its jump-off line. Our jump-off line is resounding victory in '62-after which we'll be all set for victory in the big campaign...
Once the Greeks and the Turks reached their offstage agreement in a Swiss hotel (TIME, Feb. 23), the other parties to the dispute found little room for maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...
...years a slim, changing line of girls-about 800 in all-moved ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios...
...along on his Grand Pilastre attempt, Bonatti picked Toni Gobbi, a wiry, middle-aging former lawyer who long ago chucked his law career to become a master ice climber. By evening of the first day they had reached a 10,725-ft. jump-off site, went to sleep directly below the enormous wall of Grand Pilastre. Recalled Bonatti: "It looked bad. Our legs shook a little...