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...tops twelve years, but automation and technology are rapidly making that level inadequate. At the same time, job competition is soaring swiftly: a million more 18-year-olds will enter the nation's labor market this year than last. Applications for college enrollment next fall are expected to leap by a dramatic 40% over...
Four Crimson runners scored first places, and, predictably, one of the four was Aggrey Awori, a triple winner here in 1963. A 23 ft., 4 1/2 in. leap gave Awori the broad jump title for the third straight year, a Heptagonal record...
...Angeles Times Indoor Games, Ralph was wearing a Russian beanie, a souvenir from last summer's U.S.-Russia track meet. "It's my good-luck piece," he explained, and he needed it. On his first jump, Boston soared 26 ft. Ter-Ovanesyan quickly topped that with a leap of 26 ft. 3 in. Then, in the final round, Boston uncorked a floating leap of 26 ft. 4¾ in. to go out in front once again. The Russian gave it a last desperate try, and the crowd held its breath while judges painstakingly measured Ter-Ovanesyan...
...Guide is based on a small, sensitive novel by Indian Author R. K. Narayan. In this gross adaptation, filmed in India, Writer Pearl S. Buck and U.S. Director Tad Danielewski leap to their tasks like Yankee traders setting up a souvenir stand in front of the Taj Mahal. What they are peddling are ersatz views of modern India...
...Brien took second places in the high jump and in the broad jump, won by Awori with a 22 ft., 7 in, leap, and surprised Awori in 40-yard hurdles, coming from behind to win in a fast...