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Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, who quit at the end of the season last spring, returned last night to win the long jump with a leap of 23'1/2". He also placed second in the triple jump...

Author: By Hugh M. Nesbit, | Title: Track Team Bombs B.U., Captures 10 of 12 Events In 93-20 Winter Opener | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...high jump, Harvard's strongest event, All-Ivy leaper Mel Embree and John McCullough will provide the Crimson with a powerful one-two punch. Embree has cleared seven feet and placed seventh in the NCAA championship last spring. McCullough is not far behind with a 6-foot 10-inch leap to his credit...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Thinclads Open Season Today In Clash With Tame Terriers | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

...dollar's dive has contributed to another upward leap in gold. Free-market prices have been steadily climbing, partly because speculators are betting that Americans will invest heavily in bullion when it becomes legal to do so on Jan. 1, and the latest flurry of concern over the dollar has given added glitter to gold. Early last week the price on the London exchange hit a record $190.25 per oz.-up from $150 only two months ago-before settling down at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Jitters and Glitters | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...Saudis contend that the oil companies' profit is "excessive," and that the leap in taxes and royalties is only fair. In effect, the Saudis are saying that they are lowering posted prices, and that if consumers are asked to pay more, then the oil companies are to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Back-Door Increase | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...student who blew up a war-research building at the university in Madison and killed an unrelated occupant had a few radical intellectuals to help him out at his trial, but the liberals and students who shared his point of view about the Indochina War couldn't make the leap to understanding his action. They felt the horror of the war, but for them fighting it was not a way of life for people to join in together. For Armstrong, reacting to the war was a personal act, born out of a personal tension. Everyone else...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: James Johnson | 11/20/1974 | See Source »

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