Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne, 90, who won his medal in the Philippine insurrection in 1899; he climbed a telegraph pole to mend a broken line in a hail of enemy fire. The youngest was Sergeant First Class Jerry K. Crump, 30, who won the medal in Korea when he threw him self over an exploding enemy grenade to save four companions. President Kennedy honored them all as "our most distinguished...
...happened. "I asked Spots to run," Shoemaker said sadly, "but he just wasn't there." One horse was there: Chateaugay. Ranging up on the outside, Chateaugay zoomed past No Robbery as if the two were traveling in opposite directions. Then he caught Candy Spots, and at the eighth pole, scant strides from the finish, Chateaugay pulled alongside Never Bend. He hung for an instant, and Jockey Baeza went to his whip. "It meant so much," he said. "I couldn't let him do that to me." Chateaugay drew out and at the finish he was 1¼ lengths...
...POLE VAULT. "I'm still doing all kinds of things wrong," complained Brian Sternberg, 19. "I have a tendency to arch back -and that's really bad." But at Philadelphia's Penn Relays, Sternberg arched right over the bar at 16 ft. 5 in.-a new world record. Just three days later, in Monroe, La., Northeast Louisiana State's John Pennel, 22, soared 16 ft. 6¾ in. on his first try. "I figure to clear 17 ft. before I'm through," said Pennel-but he is in no particular hurry...
...DECATHLON. Ducky Drake, his track coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls him "the finest athlete in the world." Nationalist China's wiry Yang Chuan-kwang, 29, may be just that. For a few days last January C. K. Yang held the world indoor pole-vault record: 16 ft. 3¼ in. Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed...
Harvard continued its onslaught with victories in the pole vault and the javelin, as Jay Mahaney took a surprise victory in the former with a vault of 13 ft. Recent record setter peter Lampe easily won the javelin with a throw of 209 ft. I in.; Tom Holcombe was second for the Crimson with a mark...