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Other Crimson winners were freshman Doug Boyd in the high jump, his classmate Rudulf Buntie in the pole value, Vincent Ho in the 55-meter dach, Captain Gus Udo in the triple jump, Ezegi-Okoye in the high hurdles and Tom Schuler in the shot...
Despite the graduation of Captain Dave Randall, the pole vaulting corps should be even stronger than last year with the addition of two talented Canadians. The freshmen duo of Rudy Buntik and Steve Pinney have cleared heights over 16 ft and 15 ft respectively...
...place they felt only grief. What brought more than 10,000 of them together in a moving show of defiance was the funeral of Bogdan Wlosik, 20, a trainee electrician at the steel mill who had been shot in a scuffle with a plainclothesman. He was the 15th Pole known to have been killed since the imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them in downtown Nowa Huta last week, they did use his burial rites to send a clear message to the military regime of General Wojciech...
...Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Repeating those words of Jesus (John 15:13), Pope John Paul II last week presided over the canonization of a fellow Pole who greatly inspired his own vocation as a priest: Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who died for his faith-and to save another man's life-at the most notorious of Nazi death camps...
Nowak (Jeremy Irons) is a master electrician from Warsaw, come to London with three laborers to renovate the Kensington home of a wealthy Pole. For a month's hard work the laborers will be paid a year's hard currency. The men will toil in isolation, separated from their families, the outside world and, increasingly, Nowak. He has decided it must be that way: it is December 1981, when, unknown to the three laborers, the Polish government has imposed martial...