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...Soviets evidently tried to flimflam the pole vault as well, though to little avail. According to Western vaulters, Soviet judges improperly raised their flags to help countrymen gauge the wind. Adriaan Paulen, president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) detected some hanky-panky in this one, not by the officials but by a Soviet vaulter, who was evicted for giving hand signals to a teammate. Groused Swedish Vaulter Miro Zalar, 23: "Everybody knows they are cheating...
...disputes might have been headed off had the IAAF followed usual protocol and posted red-jacketed representatives at each field event. But the Soviets asserted that their judges would be intimidated, and they persuaded Paulen to keep IAAF supervisors in the stands. At midweek, as the chorus of protests rose, Paulen was forced to reverse himself and sent his men back on the field "to protect the judges from ugly rumors." Said he: "We are still very happy with the quality of the judging...
...contributing 300 entries to the contest that week. They were not successful in copping top television honors, but Philip Morris adjudged the Crimeds runners-up and gave them second prize of an Admiral radio-phonograph console, capable of playing the new 45-minute records. Philip Morris representative Jacques Paulen expressed "extreme satisfaction" with contest results...
...term of Senator Charles Curtis, who resigned to become vice president. McGill's unsuccessful opponent in that election was former Governor Henry J. Allen, who had been appointed to the Senate the year before. In 1932, McGill's opponent was not Allen but former Governor Ben S. Paulen, whom he defeated by 26,000 votes out of nearly 700,000 cast...
Kansas Republicans picked Banker Ben Sandford Paulen, onetime Governor, to make the Senate race. Renominated by the Democrats was Senator George McGill who handily defeated a lone Wet opponent. The only Wet to make any snowing in dust-dry Kansas was Edward White Patterson, a Democratic lawyer pledged to Repeal who squeaked through to a House nomination in the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional district. Because Reapportionment cost Kansas one House seat, Republican Representatives Strong and Lambertson had to fight it out for the ist District's nomination. Mr. Strong, ardent Hooverite, was defeated...