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Groundskeepers are supposed to be pretty expendable, yet a lot of people will miss one this spring when the Varsity track meets start popping. Mike Holly, who has groomed Harvard's tracks and set up the pole vault cross-bar at all of the home meets for the past 54 years, finally called it a day last February...
...Pole vault...
Events planned for Friday include the javelin, 16-pound hammer, 16-pound shot, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, and discus. On Saturday the program will feature the 100, 220, 440, 880, mile, two-mile, 120-yard high hurdles and 220-yard low hurdles. No relays will be run. To make sure everybody has an equal chance, handicaps will be assigned by the coaches...
There were a dozen other panels, from Educational Reconstruction through Humanities & Philosophy to Museums. Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, of India, reminded his listeners that misunderstandings work both ways: "The barbarians think we are barbarians." UNESCO's Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...
With one week of play left, the teams in the National Hockey League ranked, roughly, in the order of their distance from the North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...