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...will shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat...
...days after announcing that an unheralded Soviet discus thrower had set a new world record of 202 ft. 2| in., Moscow trumpeted still more exultant news: Broad Jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 24, who placed third in the 1960 Olympics, had sailed 27 ft. 3 in. during a meet in Armenia, thus smashing the 27-ft. 1¼-in. world record set by U.S. Olympic Champion Ralph Boston in last year's U.S.Soviet track meet in Moscow. Preparing for the fourth U.S.-Soviet track meet in Palo Alto, Calif, next month the Russians had two other new records to announce...
...started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will get jobs." Throughout most of Latin America, there is a flight from the harsh land. Bet ter than 50% of the region's arable land is in the hands of only 1½% of the owners; most campesinos toil like serfs on big estates for less than $50 a year...
Little Corn. Presumably this is Richter's own clergyman father. Religion can be a heavy garment for the young. If the preacher's son can be taken for Rich ter himself, he found the religious atmosphere oppressive - "his ear assailed by the peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner...
...vine! Raisins, more likely. I never saw desert like this before, so hot and dry. The sun glaring down so, all this space ...makes me feel naked. We're just a couple of pins on the Bishop's map! You're a black pin; I'm a beige pin. TER. Now, there, there, don't yourself...the ground is I can feel it. (Standing.) me in mind of one of Pappy's "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in and thou shalt smite the rock," (he strikes the stage with his umbrella) "and there shall come...