Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Wayne Anderson won the 50-yard dash, with Bill Jewett second. Tim Hatfield won the long jump with a leap...
Yale's Calvin Hill--who spends part of the year as a football star--broke the meet broad jump record with a leap of 24 ft. 6 3/4 in. Hill is amazing to watch. He starts down the runway slowly, weaving from side to side, but when he gets two or three strides from the mark, he explodes, flailing through the air and landing in a cloud of sawdust...
White missionaries are in trouble throughout much of Africa. A decade after the continent's initial leap toward independence, Christianity faces a new and ominous hostility on the part of black leaders, who resent the churches as vestigial relics of colonialism. In recent months, a number of priests and ministers have been forced into exile, and the churches are being threatened with new restrictions...
Take the pole vault, for instance. Not only did Pete Lazarus win with a meet record leap of 14 ft., but Steve Schoonover and Dave Bell were right behind in second and third. Lazarus's mild upset over Schoonover marked the third consecutive Greater Boston vault win for the Crimson...
...15th successive earnings record, with profits up 36%, to $80 million. Thanks to what Chairman Joseph C. Wilson called an "important reversal" in orders for its once slow-moving 2400 copier, earnings outraced increasing costs. Though the year-long gain was nothing like 1965's 47% leap, Wilson seemed almost embarrassed. Some time in the future, he warned, "our percentage rate of growth must, of course, diminish." - Kennecott Copper, one of the three biggest U.S. copper producers, turned a first-half slump resulting from strikes in Chile into a booming year with profits up 22%, to $125 million. Thanks...