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Henry also nabbed a second in the high jump with a leap of 6 ft. 8 in, and second in the 55 meter dash with a time of 6.62 seconds, making him the second highest team scorer to date. Only Adam Dixon's 47 1/4 total season points tops Henry...
...five-part contest but finished strong with firsts in the high jump and the 1000 meter run to cop the title... A day earlier three Harvard thinclads posted personal bests in the annual New York-Boston Invitation Meet. Freshman MARK HENRY won the high jump with a leap of 6 ft., 9 in. In the mile run only a close examination of the photo finish revealed that ADAM DIXON had been nipped by New York's Luis Ostolozaga. But the run attracting the most attention from the Harvard contingent was BUCK LOGAN's 8:44.36 in the 2-mile event...
...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...
...keeping executive salaries in line with inflation than the Government has: pay has risen 116% to 120% for private-sector executives since 1969 but only 43% for top bureaucrats. Salaries of court of appeals judges rose 35% during that period, but lawyers in private practice saw their earnings leap 100%. Scarcely anyone, however, truly kept up with inflation during those eleven years, when the Consumer Price Index rose a staggering...
...year-old Zhao, academic discussions about the interplay of politics and economics are a great leap from writing articles such as "China's Third Steel Base Starts Producing." Since his first visit to the United States--he arrived on a slow boat from China with $25 in his pocket--Zhao has written about everything from the "Three Anti's" Campaign to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's recent tour--in short, almost anything a Chinese journalist of the past 20 years could observe...