Word: polevaulted
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...meter hurdles--1. Danville (BU) 50.6:2. Ward (BU) 51.5:3. Kirk (BC) 53.3. 800 meters--1. Neves (MIT) 1:50.8:2. Bunny (H) 1:51.4:3. Sergeant (NU) 1:52.2. 200 meters--1. Smith (BU) 20.8.2.8: 2. Garrick (BU) 21.2;3. Jones (H) 21.2. Polevault--1. Heyburn (NU) 16 ft. 0 in.: 2. Hutchinson (NU) 14-6:3. Yates (NU) 14-6. 5000 meters--1. Vona (BU) 14:50.3;2. Flynn (NU) 14:51.0;3. Conner (B) 15:02. 4 x 400-meterrelay--1. BU (Birigwa, Witcner, Ward. Danville...
Down the hall at the newstand, they are hawking papal t-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, ribbons, and anything else they can find. It is about 1:45 p.m., and the line-up begins. Cameramen use their tripods and lenses, some big enough to polevault with, to clear away the opposition. But the Secret Service is checking all bags. We descend two very gray, concrete flights of steps and peek out into the mist. God is spitting on Logan airport as we find our places and, like everybody else, go running for the front row. They're not checking boarding passes...
...parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip on girls' toes spratfalling yahoo who entered the polevault once that spring and cleared nine feet coming down, joints locked, like a pinwheeling walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond the landing pit and rolling over and over until I bumped into a car, which was owned by my friend Frank, who was sitting in the front with Nancy...
...American strength. Assuming that the U.N. is like the Olympics, something to be "won," it is indeed fortunate that America has the world's greatest weightlifter, for this proves to the world beyond a doubt that the United States is economically powerful. And Rev. Bob Richards' ability in the polevault has an obvious relationship to American development to guided missiles, while the fate of the fleet rests entirely upon the well-groomed kick of our finny friends at Yale and Ohio State...
Shot put--won by Wilson (H); 2, Blair (BU); 3, Montuori (N); 4, Ray (H). Distance: 45 feet, 11 1/6 inches. Polevault--won by Mello (H); 2, Barbosa (BU); 3, Lown (H), Bishop (BU), and McLane (N) (tie). Height: 13 feet. High jump-won by Barwise (H); 2, Mazzocca (N); 3 Palmieri (BU); 4, Baker (H). Height--6 feet, 3 1/2 inches (breaks Harvard record). Broad jump--won by Mazzocca (N); 2, Geick (H); 3, Mello (H); 4, Jenkins (BU). Distance: 22 feet...