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Neil Muncaster won the discus with a toss of 143 feet, 5 1/4 inches, while John deKiewiet won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 inch. Skip Pescosolido won the javelin at 186 feet, 9 inches, while Sam Halaby surprised with a 12 foot, 6 inch tie for first in the pole vault...
Coach Bill McCurdy will be watching with interest the showing of his field men, especially Neil Muncaster in the discus and Skip Pescosolido in the javelin, but he will need outstanding performances from both as well as a miraculous renascense of the rapidly-fading high jumpers and broad jumpers to make a fight of it. This is too much to ask, especially against a team of Army's calibre...
...once again in '74. A few years later tin bathtubs were installed, and proved so popular that they caused impatient queues. Contractor John Scully punched pipes through the partitions separating the bath cubicles, gave Chicago its first showers (with one trouble: bathers had to skip from scalding-hot to ice-cold jets). After Billy Sunday abandoned his post as centerfielder for the White Stockings (later the Chicago Cubs), became the Y.'s whoop-it-up religious director (1891-94), the organization was on its full-steam merry way. Today it is the largest Y. in the world...
...Skip the Change. An automatic change dispenser for cash registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change due, tells the clerk how many bills to hand over, send the coins down a chute to the customer. Price...
...came a call to Dick Russell about some business of the Armed Services Committee. Then in came Tennessee's Albert Gore to discuss plans for speeding up antirecession highway spending. New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, chairman of the Public Works Committee, joined Johnson and Gore, agreed to skip hearings on the highway bill and clear it for Senate consideration by this week. Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, looked in at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, trotted back to his office, gulped down a cup of hot bouillon, greeted Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey...