Word: silaflex
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...degree in business administration, plus a year of predental science. He is an apostle of Norman Vincent Peale ("He's got the right idea about things"), and he talks about vaulting as though it were mostly an exercise in practical physics. He grips his 16-ft. Silaflex pole as near the end as possible, uses a long, 140-ft. approach to gain the velocity necessary to give "a maximum bend at the vertical position. I'm trying to translate linear force into vertical force," he says, and he is hard at work on an essay entitled "Compound Pendulum...
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