Word: poled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tailor in Piacenza in Northern Italy, Casaroli began studies for the priesthood at 14, and has spent his entire career in the Secretariat of State. Vatican prelates expect his genial, flexible style to balance that of the tough, demanding Pole. Remarks one: "John Paul would tell you to jump out of the window. Casaroli will persuade you to do so after an hour's talk...
Captain Geoff Stiles capped a brilliant dual meet career by prevailing in both the pole vault (16 ft.) and the high jump...
...themes have been introduced and explored, usually with much more immediacy, by other writers. Take, for instance, the impact of television in reshaping American politics. Theodore H. White '38 in The Making of the President 1960 broke the story of the Kennedys' deliberate use of television and polls to pole-vault the regular party structure as well as time and space restrictions on national candidates. Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, a case study of media merchandising, provided a much more chilling and prophetic account of Richard Nixon's packaging than all of Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes...
...Basic cable. For a one-time fee averaging $15, the cable company that has the franchise for the subscriber's area will run a wire from the nearest telephone pole into the house and attach it to the back of the TV set, much as the Bell System installs a new phone. For a monthly fee averaging $7, the viewer can watch up to 36 channels, vs. a maximum of twelve on a set wired to a rooftop antenna. The cable brings in sharp, clear pictures and often enables a viewer to pick up out-of-the-area stations...
Geoff Stiles won the pole vault, clearing 15 ft., 10 in., and reaffirming his status as the best vaulter in the East. "It's easy to get ho-hum about Stiles winning something," McCurdy commented...