Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pole vault, McCurdy has battled graduation to a standoff. Fifteen-foot vaulter Geoff stiles returns from a strong freshman year, but all the depth he had last season is gone...
Harvard had pulled close on the strength of Geoff Stiles' pole vaulting. Stiles was the only survivor of the first stage of ragged competition. In the second round, Stiles cleared 15-ft. 6-in. to tie the Briggs Cage record...
...talented writers like Richard Reeves. The Voice, besides press critic Cockburn, probably the best of his ilk since A. J. Liebling, printed Nat Hentoff, Ken Auletta, and Robert Christgau, probably the best pop music critic around. Andrew Sarris is arguably the best film critic in America. And "The Greasy Pole," a political column co-written by Cockburn and James Ridgeway, provides some of the best leftist commentary on American politics today. It's hard to see these people being coddled by Murdoch, a bottom-line guy, the way they were by Felker...
Both are Steelworkers, and both are running for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America, the largest union in the AFL-CIO. There ends all similarity between Ed Sadlowski and Lloyd McBride. Sadlowski is 38, a scrappy Pole, a third-generation "mill rat" who feels that U.S.W.'s leadership is too close to employers and too distant from the rank and file. McBride is balding, 60, grandfatherly, a lackluster speaker, a defender of the status quo-and the apparent front runner. McBride has one thing going for him that Sadlowski does not: the backing of I.W. Abel...
...would be a lark to go up, up and away in a hot-air balloon. "I ain't worried about getting up," he said. "It's coming down." A contingent of reporters big enough for a moon shot watched Billy soar aloft, narrowly missing a utility pole, and sail over the pine trees of Americus, Ga., with the pilot and a friend. Billy blithely ignored federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead, he wore his old Pabst Blue Ribbon cap, which matched the case of refreshments he took along. Back on earth, Billy was somewhat deflated...