Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible, however, that there will be a substantial jump in the number of acceptances this year. "John Monro's move will appeal to a lot of young people; it might increase our yield significantly," David K. Smith '58, director of Admissions, said yesterday...
...Alcindor, the 7-ft. ¹⅜-in. U.C.L.A. sophomore who averaged 29 points a game this season while leading his team to a perfect 30-0 record and the N.C.A.A. championship. Lew does indeed dunk on occasion. But the bulk of his baskets come on tip-ins, lay-ups, jump shots and hook shots-all of which are still perfectly legal...
...toppled to death, and a fifth was permanently paralyzed in a fall. Now Steve Wallenda, 17, the youngest male of the proud family, who could have revitalized the troupe, has called it quits -for a high flying career with the U.S. paratroops. "I just like heights-on our first jump we will be jumping from 1,200 ft.," said Steve. "The highest I ever got in the circus was 50 ft. above the ground...
...Howard University in Washington and Meharry in Nashville-"rank among the worst in the nation, and would probably have been closed long ago had they not been a main source of doctors willing to tend Negro patients." The five Negro law schools, claim Riesman and Jencks, "are only one jump ahead of the accrediting agencies...
...degree in aeronautical engineering from M.I.T. ('25), enlisted in the Army Reserve to learn to fly. He remembers "singing hallelujahs as I did my first aerobatics in 1923, all alone, without the damn instructor in the rear cockpit." He also recalls "something like psychic ecstasy during my first parachute jump. The ecstasy ended when I landed in weeds and gravel and the open chute pulled me through them...