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...happens, is Olson, a droll and drawling Abilene Texan, who at the snap of a fiberglass tube this month hoisted himself 19 ft. ¼ in., becoming the first man to vault 19 ft. indoors. "I'm going to go higher," he promises, "I think a good bit higher, though I'm not saying how high. I don't want to do it some day and get happy with it. I want to go higher and higher." Just how high a man can go, like how fast and how far, has always been the peculiar fascination of athletics...
...transplanted Texan's single-minded focus on the politics of problems is both a strength and a weakness. Baker, 52, readily concedes that he is not expert on most domestic programs and policy issues and relies heavily on his top aide, Richard Darman, for help on such matters. He also relies on the White House's congressional lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein, to handle the details of legislative strategy...
This rivalry slices deeper than most, affecting the towns as much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...
...doctors stood by. With the medical paraphernalia-intravenous tubes, a cot on wheels and a curtain for privacy-the well-lighted cubicle might have been a hospital room. But Charlie Brooks Jr., a good-looking Texan strapped to the cot, was perfectly healthy. Then, just after midnight last Tuesday, the curtain was drawn back so that 18 unsmiling visitors, three of them Brooks' guests, could watch him die from eight feet away...
...this, her only novel, Porter overreached herself. She possessed neither the scholarship nor the profundity to write a fable of the decline of the Western world. But as a short-story writer, she achieved the violent grace of a folk ballad. Something atavistic, something frontier-Texan came out in her. The sentences cut, like the wife's knife stabbing her husband's lover in "Maria Concepcion," like the farmer's ax splitting the head of his tormentor in "Noon Wine...