Word: jump
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Track and field competition closes today, with Americans entered in all six finals. John Thomas led three Americans over the qualifying height of 6 ft., 9 in. in the high jump. Russia's world-record holder Valery Brumel almost failed to qualify. Brumel didn't clear 6 ft., 8 in. until his third and last...
This fall, stretch is the biggest word in fashion. Sportswear manufacturers are designing stretch shirts, stretch shorts, stretch dungarees, stretch skirts, jumpers and jump suits (one-piece outfits, designed as lounge wear but equally at home in the cockpit). Lingerie makers, longtime fanciers of "the flexible look," are offering a flock of pliable bras and girdles, stretched the point with a nightgown topped in stretch lace and called "the Jean Harlow." The children's wear industry got busy on stretch coveralls and snowsuits. Men's wear merchandisers offered stretch slacks (no bagging at knees or seat...
Iolanda Balas of Rumania took the woman's high jump and Ken Matthews of Great Britain took the 20-kilometer walk in the other track finals yesterday...
Britain's Mary Bignal Rand jumped a world-record 22 feet, 21/2 inches to win the women's broad jump...
...President's limousine has been redesigned to permit two Secret Service men to sit facing the President in jump seats. In the car following the President's limousine, an agent with an automatic rifle now sits facing toward the rear-ready to fire should he spot a potential assassin aiming at the President from behind, as Lee Harvey Oswald did. Before Kennedy was killed, Secret Service files with names of persons potentially dangerous to the President contained no more than 400 names; now, thanks to broadened criteria for including names, those same Secret Service files list some...