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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Section 20(e) itself, which seems to be aimed only at the best vaulters. To clear 17 ft. with a 16-ft. pole, he explains, a jumper must push himself almost straight up at the moment of release. "It's no trouble nudging the pole back at lower height. But at 17 ft. you don't have any natural leverage." As Seagren sees it, there are only two solutions: 1) get the rule changed, or 2) get lucky...
When Betty Vanella was born in 1930, nature seemed to have gone out of its way to do everything wrong in building her heart. The two "great vessels" were hooked up in reverse: the aorta, which is supposed to send oxygenated blood from the left lower chamber out to the body, emerged instead from the right lower chamber; the pulmonary artery, which is supposed to send used venous blood from the right lower chamber to the lungs for oxygenation, was connected where the aorta should have been. To make matters worse, the outflow of blood from the heart through...
...Manhattan, the light goes on at the Head Shop, a hole-in-the-wall Lower East Side shop opened last year by Jeff Click, 25, and Ben Schawinsky, 27, who wanted "to do something legal and be in touch with the beautiful people." Their initial $500 investment turned into a $3,000 a week bonanza, so last October they opened a Greenwich Village branch. Both shops keep psychedelic hours (2 p.m. to 10 p.m.), sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners...
...Crimson profited from the trade when at 18:41 Garrity spectacularly carried the puck the length of the ice. He fooled Murray Watkinson, Orr's replacement, and pinpointed a bullet into the goal's lower right corner. Only a perfect shot could pass Dryden last night...
...some reason--be it Harvard sports spectator apathy, the long cold walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge, or the departure of Gene Kinasewich and Eastern supremacy it is also one of the emptiest. The average attendance last year was less than a thousand, and this year it is even lower...