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Lanky freshman Jim Voleman looked up at the high jump bar set at 6 ft. 4 in--higher than he had ever jumped in his life. Seconds before, Keith Colburn had streaked past the jump pit on his way to a victory on the anchor leg of the two-mile relay. That win put Harvard just a point and a half behind Princeton...
Nearly everyone in Yale's Coxe Cage had gathered around the pit where Coleman and Princeton jumper John Miller were about to decide last Friday's Big Three freshman championship in the meet's final event. Yale was out of it. In fact, everyone was out of it except Miller and Coleman...
...Angeles, Jerry Proctor, a 17-year-old from Pasadena, broad-jumped 25 ft. 101 in., and U.S.C.'s Bob Seagren polevaulted 17 ft. 2 in.-1 in. above his own world indoor mark-only to have the leap nullified because his pole fell into the landing pit. > Drin: the 1¼-mile Strub Stakes, first $100,000-added horse race of the year (total value: $129,800), charging from ninth in a field of twelve to score by a length, at California's Santa Anita Park. The prerace favorite (at 3-5) was Ogden Phipps's four...
...Manhattan's modestly housed Commodity Exchange, some 60 brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...Group) has either miscast or misdirected some of his principals. Mason and Signoret, however, are pathetically impressive as a couple of mice wandering in a maze designed for rats. And as a whole, the film convincingly elucidates in a modern instance why Dante consigned traitors to the very pit of hell. Le Carre similarly perceives treason as a spiritual attitude underlying the political act. His traitors are liars who live out their lie. His meaning of treason is the loss of self...