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OuHhinking the Bar. So far this season, Uelses' timing has been flawless. "It was a dream vault," recalls the University of Maryland's vaulting coach, George Butler, who watched Uelses smash Bragg's record in Washington. "The only perfect leap I ever saw. I'm sure he would have made it if the bar was at 16 ft. 4 in.-with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard...
...next major figure in Notre Dame's history was a smash-nosed kid from Chicago, a Norwegian-American Protestant named Knute Rockne. In 1913 obscure little Notre Dame played Army in Yankee Stadium as a filler on West Point's football schedule. Captain Rockne, at left end, and Quarterback Gus Dorais passed Army to death-35 to 13. The stunning upset made Notre Dame famous. From nuns to workingmen, Catholics all over the country began praying on Saturday mornings for Notre Dame victories...
...else who put poor, passive Hitler in a mood to fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that...
Presumed Married. Juan Perón, 66, ex-Dictator of Argentina, who long publicly shunned another marriage for fear it might smash his daydream of returning to power in the nation that once wanted to canonize his late wife Evita; and Isabel Martinez, 27, petite blonde "secretary" who has been his constant companion since shortly after his 1955 ouster and whom he began introducing socially as "my wife" after Christmas Eve Mass in Madrid; under unknown circumstances but probably in Panama soon after Perón's eviction from Argentina; he for the third time, she for the first...
...house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next to the Duke of Wellington, when he was hit. "By God, sir, I've lost my leg," he exclaimed, according to legend. Wellington lowered his telescope and replied, "By God, sir, so you have," and screwed the telescope back...