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Witness the 29-ft. 21-in. winning long jump of America's Bob Beamon at Mexico, which shattered the world record by nearly two feet; Beamon has never since come close to that prodigious leap. Then there are the form favorites who somehow fail to produce their best at the Games. In the men's discus throw, four world record holders in a row have missed winning the gold medal; each time it went to the same man: steady, nerveless Al Oerter...
...sometime Hollywood bit player who is married to actress Kam Nelson, Seagren reached the heights early, when, as an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, he shattered N.C.A.A. and world pole-vaulting records. Still, nothing that he had ever done before came close to equaling his record-breaking leap in El Paso. He gives at least partial credit for that effort to a new pole he used that day, which was developed by Herbert Jenks, a fiber-glass expert from Carson City, Nev. Seagren's pole weighs only 6 Ibs. instead of the standard...
...moved from American to Latin American history when he was a junior faculty member. Now he has a brilliant reputation and a tenured position at Harvard that the History Department had wanted to fill for 14 years. But not everyone is so successful. Thomas E. Skidmore made a giant leap from medieval European history to Brazilian and South American history. He is now at the University of Wisconsin...
There were more curiosities to come: Spiritual Music from New England tune books of the late 18th century, richly melancholy Negro spirituals, then a leap to Charles Ives' quirky but equally spiritual Three Harvest Home Chorales-still sounding sonorously dissonant and as futuristic as ever...
...Great Leap. Many aviation men are convinced that there is. For the past few years, they have fought vigorously-and lately with increasing success-for a new system of flight control that may answer many, if not all the problems: area navigation or R-Nav (short for random navigation). In the opinion of many aviation experts, widespread use of R-Nav would be the greatest leap forward in aerial navigation since the early 1950s, when the U.S. first set up its present air corridors by crisscrossing the country with radio beacons or VORs (for very-high-frequency omnidirectional range...