Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning, the weather again helped the enemy. With a mere 200-ft. ceiling, the choppers and planes had to come in right on the Communist guns-and six were shot down. One skidded safely onto the airstrip in a gear-up landing, and its pilot, Major Stafford ("Jump") Myers, 46, jumped out and scrambled into a trench. Minutes later, his fellow pilot, Major Bernard Fisher, had braved the hail of fire to land his Skyraider on the same short strip. "Nobody's ever seen an old man like me run so fast in his life," Jump explained later...
...sophomore at Glendale College in California who plans to enter U.S.C. next fall, Seagren has been vaulting ever since the seventh grade back in Pomona. His best jump until this year was 16 ft. 4 in., and he almost quit jumping last December when he pulled a hamstring in Saskatoon. Pennel made the difference. The two vaulters met at a track meet in San Diego last summer, hit it off well from the start. They traveled to Brazil together last fall, and in January moved into a four-room apartment in Glendale furnished mainly with prizes won by Pennel...
...most impressive victory belonged to Chris Pardee in the high jump. Frustrated in his last two attempts to carry away the Heptagonal crown, Pardee jumped 6 ft., 10 1/4 in. to top arch-rival Karl Kremser of Army (6 ft., 8 in.) and set two records...
Pardee made his winning jump on his second try at the height, and just missed in his second attempt at 6 ft., 11 in, when his trailing leg brushed the crossbar. Pardee also scored a surprise second in the broad jump with a 23 ft., 6 1/2 in. leap, 2 1/2 in. short of the winning jump by Navy's Tom Palkie...
Pardee and Harvey Thomas may come with a few more points in the broad jump, where Cornell's Robert Holmes ft., (23 ft., 10 in.), Army's Paul Haseman ft., 9 in.), and Navy's Tom Palkie ft., 7 in.) head a mediocre field. Pardee 23 ft., 2 3/4 in, effort against Yale the Crimson's best of the season...