Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sitting it out back home. Two months ago in Kansas City, Beamon sailed 27 ft. 1 in. to break the world indoor mark of 27 ft. set by the Russian in 1966. Two weeks ago, at the N.C.A.A. championships in Detroit, Beamon rubbed salt in the wound with a leap...
Rittenburg began his heyday by winning the broad jump with a 23'-plus leap--his best ever. Between tries in the high jump, as the bar rose quickly toward six feet, he sprinted to an unexpected second place in the 100 in 9.9 seconds and a 14.6 victory clocking in the high hurdles...
...consummate behind-the-scenes man, a reputation deriving largely from his masterful work for brother John in 1960. Public opinion polls of the last year and a half suggest he is also a popular as any politician has a right to be. So it shouldn't be any great leap of the imagination to view him as virtually the ideal candidate, a one-man combine of the goods and the ability to sell them...
...Harvard and Radcliffe students who leave each year to go to mental hospitals, the trip to the other side is more often a slow, sad spiral than a sudden leap. In recent interviews, nine students who have been at McLean Hospital, a large, private, Harvard-staffed institution in Belmont, talked about freaking out--why they went, where they went, and what they found...
CAROL CHANNING AND 101 MEN (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Broadway's Dolly has the answer to a maiden's prayer on leap-year day. Her collection includes: Eddy Arnold, Walter Matthau, George Burns, the Association and the U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale...