Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear Bob talk, there's nothing to it, really. "I just jump," he says. Sprinting down the runway, he powers off the board, "windmilling" through the air until the last instant, when he extends his legs way out ahead of him-and sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring...
Love That Basketball. Son of a New York City shoemaker, Beamon only recently started concentrating on the long jump. True, he could jump better than 24 ft. when only a freshman at Jamaica High School in New York, but basketball was his love, he says. "I didn't have too much interest in track." All that changed at Texas when Coach Wayne Vandenburg got hold of him. As a freshman at the A.A.U. championships in Oakland last March, Beamon fouled on three of his four jumps. His one legal jump, though, was a full 15 in. better than...
...that he has the world indoor record, Beamon has his sights on the outdoor record of 27 ft. 4¾ in., held jointly by Boston and Ter-Ovanesyan. And why not? After all, Bob got off a fantastic 27-ft. 7½-in. jump at the N.C.A.A. championships, only to find that he had fouled by ½ in. Ultimately, he aims for a 28-ft. jump-the distance it may take to win in the Olympics. "I'm not in good shape yet," says he. "I haven't really started my training...
McCulloch's twin-boom J-2 gyroplane can virtually duplicate the performance of a helicopter. It can make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
False-Teeth Collage. The average visitor, ushered through the five galleries annexed to the Winnetka chateau belonging to Retailing Executive Robert Mayer, 57, wishes he had brought along his sunglasses: more than 450 works of op, pop, ob, blob, kinetic and frenetic art jump, creep, twitch, jiggle or blaze from every conceivable wall and cranny. Some of Mayer's purchases are spectacularly fine, including Robert Rauschenberg's Buffalo II, a recent star at the Sao Paulo Bienal. Many others are simply spectacular. For, as Mayer is the first to admit, he has something of a glass...