Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy pole vaulter Mike Brown, who has cleared 16 feet, is the meet's closest thing to a sure winner. Teammate Courtland Gray, who beat Elias Gilbert, Ralph Boston, and Aggrey Awori to win the BAA high hurdles, ranks a close second among the solid favorites...
...mile oval, confident of sweeping everything in sight. Zoom! Past them flashed two 1964 Mercurys, privately entered cousins belonging to Bud Moore, a taciturn garage owner from Spartanburg, S.C. In the time trials, Darel Dieringer clocked 166.66 m.p.h. in a Ford-powered Mercury to win the pole position for the start of the 500. Somehow, Moore was getting more out of his power plants than the factory experts who built them in the first place...
...Smith, Yale's Rick Wilmer, and Princeton's Ross Odell should make the mile the day's closest race. Tigers Wayne Morse and Mike Mitchell should take first and second ahead of George Winters in the pole vault...
Poland has a church with considerable freedom of operation-thanks to the unshakable faith of the Poles, who are 96.5% Catholic, and the skillful diplomacy of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. But the Polish government has imposed heavy taxes on the church, and is trying to limit religious instruction in schools; Wyszynski responds with fiery sermons against Red harassment. Gomulka would like to bypass Wyszynski and establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican, but the cardinal got assurances from the Vatican that it would not negotiate with the Polish government without his consent. He also asked Pope Paul not to name a Pole...
Winters's meet record pole vault of 13 ft, 5 in. was the highest of his own Harvard career and earned the loudest applause of the evening from the Briggs Cage spectators. Winters had the bar moved all the way up to 13 ft., 9 in. but on his first try at the height the pole snapped in half during his ascent. Winters tumbled safely into the foam cushioning but chose not to attempt any more vaults...