Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard talked about anything else. Many professors wanted the students involved kicked out. Their arguments ranged from judicious concerns--no issue, even the Vietnam war, is important enough to override anyone's civil liberties--to moral righteousness--it's time those kids were taught a lesson. At the opposite pole one professor proclaimed that if they were thrown out, he went too, while many others vigorously supported the students' actions without making them their own. One group was terribly concerned that the University family would be torn apart on the issue and that the students and their faculty would...
Steve Schoonover successfully defended his Hep title in the pole vault with a 15' 6" effort...
Cynics talked sourly of impending catastrophe. The expanded league, they insisted, was too big, financially shaky (think of all those extra travel bills), badly unbalanced in the quality of play. Stocked with castoffs, minor leaguers and even non-Canadians (four Americans, one Scot, one Pole), the new West Division teams in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Oakland could hardly be expected to furnish much competition for the established East Division clubs. And when they were slaughtered by scores of say 15-0, who would come out to see them play? Auditoriums would empty, franchises would fold...
...perhaps unfair that Baker and Shaw dominated the limelight--unfair but understandable. No matter how fast someone runs the two-mile or the two-mile relay, or how far someone puts the shot or how high someone pole vaults, the four-minute miler will be the hero of track and field. Even though dozens of runners have broken four minutes since Bannister and the world record is now an impossible 3:51.1, four minutes remains the magic mark, the measure of the miler's mettle. And everyone seems to think that one of these days either Baker or Shaw...
Harvard broke or tied six of Brown's cage records, including the two-mile, 1000, 600, shot put pole vault, and mile relay marks...