Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waited two years for his crown because of the nation's deep grief over Salote's death, is an Australian-educated lawyer who was Tonga's Prime Minister until his mother died. In his university days, he excelled at such untraditional sports as surfing and pole vaulting. Among his goals: to lure more tourists to the Tonga (Friendly) Islands and to drive out the rhinoceros beetles that threaten Tonga's coconut trees. The King must share his powers with Tonga's elected Parliament and a privy council but, unlike a lot of smaller kings...
...race would be little different from a race between eight midget horses. Instead of the classic "They're off!" and the clanging bell soon drowned in the thunder of hooves you hear "Theeeere goes SWIFty!!" and a white, shiny, stuffed, vulgar mechanical rabbit on the end of a pole whirs in front of the hounds, who scramble after in mad pursuit...
...Southern Cal's Paul Wilson, 19, hardly looked strong enough to bend a vaulting pole, let alone provide any serious competition for U.S.C. Teammate Bob Seagren-who only two weeks before had set a new world record of 17 ft. 7 in. Wilson, who learned to vault using bamboo from neighbors' yards, soared 17 ft. 8 in. to beat Seagren's mark by an inch...
...easily the world's best pole vaulter a decade ago keeps neither a scrapbook nor a trophy room, cannot even remember where he stashed the gold medals he won in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Yet at 41, jut-jawed Bob Richards is as familiar a figure as most active athletes. Nobody could be happier about that than General Mills, Inc., maker of Wheaties, the breakfast yummy that Richards, one of the country's most successful single-product salesmen, enthusiastically pushes on television...
Richards still lives in La Verne, keeps physically fit by jogging five miles a day, exercising on his backyard trampoline or riding his palomino stallion Sun Up. The garden of his $50,000 ranch-style home is equipped with a pole-vaulting rig, and Richards claims he can still clear his best competition height of 15 ft. 6 in. He also has other interests. He owns an 8,000-acre ranch in Colorado and a film studio-an abandoned Methodist church-in La Verne...