Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rock with a generous quotient of his native folk music. Vistas of the veld spill out of his trumpet in Mra and from his scratchy singing voice in Ha Lese Le Di Khanna, a cattle-herding song. Little Miss Sweetness leans on the rock side. The most infectious track is Up Up and Away, which Masekela rescues from the TWA commercial and instills with a zestful buoyancy...
...TRACK & FIELD...
...board, "windmilling" through the air until the last instant, when he extends his legs way out ahead of him-and sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring for an all-out jump. And Beamon is still deciding how far to run before takeoff: he usually favors...
...York City shoemaker, Beamon only recently started concentrating on the long jump. True, he could jump better than 24 ft. when only a freshman at Jamaica High School in New York, but basketball was his love, he says. "I didn't have too much interest in track." All that changed at Texas when Coach Wayne Vandenburg got hold of him. As a freshman at the A.A.U. championships in Oakland last March, Beamon fouled on three of his four jumps. His one legal jump, though, was a full 15 in. better than he had ever done before...
...only freshman on the 1960 combined Harvard-Yale track team against Oxford and Cambridge, he out-jumped the former Harvard track captain who was leading the British, in what he later described as the greatest thrill of his Harvard career. After his first two games Ohiri was never in full form again. Munro says in retrospect, "The thing that I always think about is that after those initial two games, I never saw him healthy...