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...includes one seven-foot jumper, Louisianan Dick Ross. Pardee, who has cleared 6 ft., 10 in., has apparently recovered from an ankle sprain that kept him out of last week's meet against Boston College. Njoku topped 6 ft., 6 in. against the Eagles and may be ready to soar even higher in the Garden...
...becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems like five solid minutes while the point sinks...
Stretching the Constitution. Yet in Bolivia's hotheaded politics, where emotions soar as high as the Andes, Paz made many enemies. Last year he rammed through a questionable constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a second consecutive term. In protest, opposition parties, and even many of his own party members, handed in empty ballots in the May election. As the hostility increased, Paz in September declared a state of siege, imposing press censorship and packing several of his loudest critics off to exile. Next Paz quarreled with his Vice President, Rene Barrientos, 45, an ambitious air force general...
...busy Saturdays the aisles of southend supermarkets were almost bare. Boeing, the city's biggest employer and once the nation's largest defense contractor, was on the ropes. It had lost the multibillion-dollar TFX fighter contract to General Dynamics and had its contract for the Dyna-Soar manned spacecraft abruptly canceled. Its defense business had fallen by $150 million since 1962, and its work force had dropped by 12,000 to 92,100. Boeing was undergoing an agony that afflicts many U.S. corporations in a day of selective defense cutbacks: the necessity of finding something to fill...
...lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research, is in the running for a contract to build a manned orbiting laboratory, and is building a $15 million space research-and-development center as the next step toward landing more space-age contracts...