Word: poles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional meet records fell in the field events. The Crimson's Tom Blodgett won the javelin with a toss of 190 ft., 10 in., and edged out teammate Skip Pescosolido and Cornell's John Murray with 13 ft., 7 1/4 in. in the pole vault...
Obviously, concluded Van Allen, "there was something wild and woolly going on." The aurora borealis is most intense at latitudes north of Newfoundland. It was believed to be caused by charged particles of some sort raining down from space and concentrated around the Magnetic North Pole by the earth's magnetic field. Though Van Allen could not guess it then, the "cosmic rays" detected by his Rockoons were directly related to the northern lights, and were really a fringe of the worldwide radiation belt that he was to discover five years later...
First Beep. With this work well underway and no satellite launching expected for some time, Van Allen was not a man to sit around idly. He got aboard the Navy icebreaker Glacier and headed for Antarctica to measure cosmic rays near the South Magnetic Pole. On Oct. 4, when the Glacier was wallowing southward across the Pacific, a report that the Russians had launched a satellite came over the ship's radio. Van Allen went to work on the Glacier's 20-mc. receiver, and within half an hour it yielded vigorous beeping sounds. That was Sputnik...
Quaker Bob Reed is the choice by a slim margin in the broad jump, but the varsity's Bob Downs and Pat Liles could finish one-two with a little luck. Cornell's John Murray is far and away the best pole vaulter in the field, having cleared 14 feet...
John deKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 2 in. for a meet record in the high jump, and broad jumper Bob Downs, hammer thrower Jim Doty, and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett contributed wins in their specialties...