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Three days later, after Louganis had won his gold and Ron Merriott, 24, of the U.S. had followed Tan Liangde's silver with a bronze, springboard diving gave way to platform competition. The contrast is sharp and fascinating. The best parallel in sport may be to skiing. Springboard diving, like slalom racing, requires great agility and tuning as the diver catches the flex of the board and rides it for maximum spring. Platform diving is like downhill racing, a dangerous, gut-sucking plunge that seems insane to onlookers and sometimes to participants. The concrete platform, of course, does...
...leading American expedition will be headed by Dr. John A. Miller, Vice President of Swathmore College and Director of its Sproul Observatory. It will be stationed at Yerbaniz, Mexico. Other members: Profs. E. W. Merriott and W. E. Wright, of Swathmore; Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Dinsmore Alter, University of Kansas. They will take a 65-foot focal length telescope camera, the largest ever used for this work...
...scratch-R H Davis, H B C, E A Bailey, H B C, F G Brown, N Y A C, J P Clark, Dorchester B C, E Clark, Dorchester B C, J W Schoefer, Berkeley A C, W D Frost, Marrick B C, Foster, Hartford B C, G H Merriott, Needham, R J McLaren, Clinton...
...mile safety handicap-S L Cromwell, R H Davis, E A Bailey, W B Greenleaf, H B C A W Porter, G H Merriott, Peter Berlo, South Boston...
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