Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending them to Russia that bothers us most," said another Pole. "Many of those mixed up in the riots were just young people. We saw what happened after the East German riots three years ago. Great carloads of Germans came through here, on their way to Russia. We went down to the tracks to see them. We could not do much. They were hungry. We gave them food. Can't the U.N. do something to keep that from happening...
High Jump. The high-jumper's sound barrier was 7 ft. To jumpers, until last week, it was the equivalent of the 4-min. mile, the 9-sec. 100-yd. dash (not yet achieved), the 15-ft. pole vault. Like those, it was also a psychological barrier, hovering only half an inch above Walt Davis' 1953 world record. The high jump brought the Olympic trials' greatest moment. Handsome, nervous Ernie Shelton of U.S.C. fouled out at 6 ft. 9½ in. and went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete...
...reason for the recurring Pleistocene ice ages, say Ewing and Donn, is that the earth's poles are where they are. The South Pole is in the middle of a continent, and the North Pole is in the middle of the small Arctic Ocean, which is almost entirely surrounded by land. This setup is like a slow-responding thermostat that keeps the earth alternating between glacial and interglacial periods...
...Cologne, Germany, an autocratic, absent-minded composer named Karlheinz Stockhausen has fun supplying the state-run West German Radio with electronic music. Many of the sounds he makes resemble those of the Barrons, but his attitude is at the opposite esthetic pole. A conservatory pupil first, then an electronic expert, he composes on paper (his scores suggest a cross between economists' graphs and architects' schemes), then reduces his ideas to sound. This involves great concentration and endless experiment...
...Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, a 5,000-strong procession made for the Chicago Avenue Armory and an afternoon and evening of island-style fun and games. Armour & Co. provided 500-odd pigs and the prize for reaching the top of a well-greased pole was a color television...