Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force Majors McDivitt and White that he was nominating them for promotions to lieutenant colonel. He also said he was nominating Gemini 3 Command Pilot Gus Grissom, who helped guide Gemini 4 from the ground, and Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who will fly Gemini 5, for the same jump in rank. This "little to ken," he told the astronauts, is "some thing you can eat as well as wear...
Some plot surprises eventually do turn up in Brainstorm, but none sturdy enough to compete with Producer-Director William Conrad's unsettling cinematic mannerisms. He recklessly jump-cuts from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions or linking one sequence to another with trick dialogue. Between times, the plot turns upon Jeff's illicit love for Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that...
Chris Parade was another place winner in last year's NCAA's, when he high-jumped 6 ft., 10 1/2 in, and took fourth place. Pardee injured his ankle this winter and didn't jump outdoors until May, however. His best effort this spring has been...
...final quarter to edge Oregon's Jim Grelle with both men clocking a fast 3 min. 56.4 sec. The Aussie's great run made it four new world records in the space of seven days. The others: a 27-ft. 5-in. broad jump by current Record Holder (at 27 ft. 41 in.) Ralph Boston, 26, who topped 27 ft. on three of his six leaps; a 233-ft. 2-in. hammer throw by Harold Connolly, 33, stretching his own three-year-old record...
Maryland's team victory ended a five-year winning string for Jumbo Elliott's Villanova Wildcats. The Terrapins won two events besides the high jump, on the strength of Henry Cole's 24 ft., 5 3/4 in. broad jump and Russ White's 241 ft., 1/2 in. javelin throw...