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...antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter. All he did was perfect a gimmick." Bragg's complaint: Uelses uses a feather-light (5 Ibs.) flexible fiber-glass pole that-says Bragg -acts like a slingshot, catapulting the vaulter to heights he could not otherwise reach. (Countered Uelses: "Let Bragg do the talking. I'll do the vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might be disallowed. Sportswriters compared vaulting's "lively pole...
Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set; the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony...
Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set; the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony...
Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set: the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony...
...like of which exist today probably only in the yet un-detribalized parts of Africa. But it is not merely the scale of life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant...