Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif., a witness saw a blonde girl with a ponytail run from the alley and jump into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro. Eventually tried for the crime, Janet and Malcolm Collins were faced with the circumstantial evidence that she was white, blonde and wore a ponytail while her Negro husband owned a yellow car and wore a beard. The prosecution, impressed by the unusual nature and number of matching details, sought to persuade the jury by invoking a law rarely used in a courtroom...
...Ready to Jump." Annemarie's own taste runs to roast goose with red cabbage and homemade spatzle (noodles), and her idea of an ideal main course is roast duck served with white rice, artichoke bottoms and petits pois with a salad of romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter herself ("If one eats right, one doesn't have to"), she made herself an expert in low-calorie meals. And when Weight Watchers magazine asked for a few samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon...
Johnson's victory came in the triple jump right after the Yardlings had dropped both relays to fall one point behind. Princeton held first and second in the event going into the final leap, but Johnson raced down the strip to go 46'8" and break the oldest freshman record at Harvard. Frank Connelly set the old record of 45 feet when he won in the 1896 Olympics...
...Dugger followed Johnson with his best jump of the year, gaining him third place and the two team points necessary...
With only the relay and the triple jump left, freshman coach Ed Stowell said "We decided not to go for the tie, but to save Johnson for the triple jump." His gamble paid off in a new freshman record...