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...stiffer) pole. Straining and pressing for all he was worth, he failed in three attempts to clear 17 ft. 10½ in. Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany topped 18 ft. ½ in. to pick up the gold medal, leaving Seagren fuming with a silver. The usually easygoing U.S. vaulter thrust the pole into the hands of an I.A.A.F. official and turned away angrily from Nordwig's extended hand. Seagren returned to shake hands, but his anger was scarcely concealed. "The only difference between the pole I'm using and the one I used two years ago is that...
...State University use it to power four experimental cars that produce almost no pollution. It even has been used to run the domestic appliances in the Institute of Gas Technology's experimental "Hydrogen House" in Chicago. As experience with hydrogen grows, researchers are betting that the fuel that thrust man to the moon will help him to live better on earth...
...five sessions of the Republican Convention were conceived as the initial thrust of a coalition campaign. Timed to the split second, the Convention worked around several themes bringing in Democratic centrists and conservatives by appealing to bygone days of unity, stalking the youth vote previously conceded to Senator George McGovern, and mounting a fear of what McGovern might do if elected President...
...keynote speech "a coalition of protest," the nominee's advisers see his specific proposals as part of an attempt to respond to the same kind of discontent and desire for change that Alabama Governor George Wallace so bitingly articulated but did not satisfy. Thus, a basic thrust of the McGovern campaign will be to portray Nixon as the champion of bigness-citing, for example, the Administration's coziness with ITT officials-and as the most prominent representative of a political system that voters want to change. With the Administration depicted as deceptive, secretive and unwilling to "level with...
Initially, the aim of Truong's thrust appeared to be the relatively conservative one of securing the districts of Trieu Phong and Hai Lang to the east and south of Quang Tri city. Thieu himself implied as much when he told reporters a week earlier that the recapture of the city was a matter of little concern at the moment. Last week, South Vietnamese troops moved closer and closer to the provincial capital. It is possible that Thieu was trying to throw the North