Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each team is strongest in events where the other is weak--Harvard in the distance weight events, Army in the pole vault, high jump, hurdles, and dash. Today's meet should produce a number of lopsided wins, with the outcome hinging on the relays and the events where both teams are about equally strong--the middle distance races and the broad jump...
Army will almost certainly win the high jump and the pole vault and could conceivably sweep both. The Cadets have two high jumpers who have gone 6'9"--Gary Steele and Bruce Olson--and another who is up to 6'6". In the pole vault, Army's John Rountree and Kevin James both do around 15', which will make it tough for Harvard's Pete Lazarus...
Analyzing data at the University of Western Ontario, Geophysicists Lula Mansinha and Douglas Smylie found that the circular path traced by the North Pole between 1957 and 1968 was actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time...
...geophysicists also discovered that there were noticeable changes in the path of the wandering pole from five to 20 days before many of the major earth tremors. By tracking the pole path more regularly, and by placing sensitive instruments along the earth's major fault zones, they suggested, scientists may some day provide advance warning not only on where and when an earthquake will occur, but how severe it will...
Impressed by the apparent correlation between wobble and earthquakes, Columbia University Physicist James Heirtzler offers a different theory in the current issue of Scientific American. The prequake variations in the path of the pole suggest to him that the wobble is responsible for-rather than a result of-the earthquakes. Furthermore, he speculates, the wobble may also cause climate changes, mountain-building, and even the occasional reversal of the earth's magnetic field. But Heirtzler's theory still leaves wide open the question that Mansinha and Smylie believe they have correctly answered: What causes the wobble...