Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close Shave. Even then he went into his last jump needing to come within 2 meters of the center to beat out Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Klima, 32, who put on an incredible show with an old-style chute. Not a sound could be heard from the 10,000 spectators as Fortenberry drifted down in his red, white and blue chute. Then a roar went up when the P.A. system announced his distance: 1.43 meters, for a whisker-thin victory...
Girl with Green Eyes. She looks, at a glance, like somebody's stenographer. Ski-jump nose, ratty hair, teeth a bit askew. But a fuller inspection finds something special in the face, a radiance. The eyes have it. They are large, the eyes of a night animal. They shine in a night of their own like stars in a dark pool...
...Frankfurt. Its passengers are the usual assemblage of harassed or abrasive or mysterious strangers. Most objectionable of the lot is José Ferrer as a famous newsman with a nose for international incidents. Sure enough, an incident occurs when a French nurse (Nicole Courcel) helps a frightened refugee to jump aboard the train. Thus a U.S. lieutenant (Sean Flynn), commanding officer of the train, is caught between the quadripartite treaty and the Brotherhood of Man. When the Soviets uncouple the engine at the border station of Marienborn, demanding that the prisoner be surrendered-well, what's a fellow...
...Quite Right. That was just the warmup. Russia's incomparable Valery Brumel won the high jump as expected, but broke no records at 7 ft. 3½ in. The cheers were for Dallas Long, who put together the greatest series of shot-puts anyone is likely to see for years; four straight times he lobbed the 16-lb. shot farther than his own world record of 66 ft. 3½ in., one put going 67 ft. 10 in., then walked off muttering that he did not quite "feel right." In the pole vault, Fred Hansen reset the world record...
...beginning to show championship strength in a whole list of events that it had never won before, had always more or less conceded to other nations. Philadelphia Insurance Man Ira Davis bounced 53 ft. 11 in. to give the U.S. its first victory in the triple jump (hop, step and jump). For six years, New Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The U.S. has never produced a better...