Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weightlessness is easy to achieve on earth, but only for short intervals. The simplest way is to jump off something, even a chair. While the jumper is in free fall, his body as a whole is pulled by the earth's gravitation, but the parts of his body feel weightless. In the same way a person in a rapidly descending elevator feels his stomach rise. Actually it does rise: the elevator's fall has made the stomach lose weight, and the elastic tissues that support it have pulled it upward. When the elevator stops descending, gravity resumes control...
High Hopes. Already qualified as an Olympic broad-jumper, Johnson paced himself nicely through the decathlon, made it all look so easy that fans could almost believe him when he insisted that in regular meets, he often works far harder. He started out by winning the 100-meter dash. He won the broad jump, placed third in the shot put, dropped to ninth in the high jump, with an injured knee, but tied for first (with Notre Dame's Aubrey Lewis) in the 400-meter run, toughest of the first day's tests...
High Jump. The high-jumper's sound barrier was 7 ft. To jumpers, until last week, it was the equivalent of the 4-min. mile, the 9-sec. 100-yd. dash (not yet achieved), the 15-ft. pole vault. Like those, it was also a psychological barrier, hovering only half an inch above Walt Davis' 1953 world record. The high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete...
...Jumper-like sheaths with jackets are dressy enough for cocktail wear in hot weather. The newest style for the belle of the ball, however, is the bell-shaped look. This relative novelty in dressy styles is smooth in front, curves out from the waist, and develops more fulness in back...
...Barksdale, Morgan State high jumper, cleared the bar at 6 ft. 9 in. to break a 22-year-old meet record...