Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blare of brass and a gathering bloodbeat of drums, the dancers in the two long lines-men on one side, women opposite-hop forward, jump back, hop-hop-hop ahead, and then kiss-kiss-kiss. After that, both lines shift right so that new partners pucker into view for the next round of "letkiss," the non-dance craze that has Munich on tiptoe...
...jumping, the Crimson's traditional Achilles heel, was ruinous. The Crimson leapers fared even worse than usual on Middlebury's big fifty meter jump. Bob Livermore turned in the best Crimson performance coming in twenty-sixth...
Demoralized by the big jump and a strong wind blowing up the hill this weekend, the Crimson leapers should turn in a better score on the smaller jump at St. Lawrence this weekend. As there are no mountains or ski jumps in Cambridge, the Crimson has less practice than the other teams this season. Nevertheless there has been steady improvement in all events except jumping. The team has succeeded remarkably well in its schizophrenic life of spending half of the week in Lamont and half in les Montagnes...
...High Jump...
...less exhilirating second place belonged to Chris Pardee in the high jump. The pre-meet favorite, Pardee failed for the first time this season to clear 6 ft., 8 in. and had to settle for the runner-up position behind Yale's Kim Hill. Pardee was jumping in borrowed footwear, as his own shoes had been misplaced on route to Cornell...