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HIGH JUMP 1924: 6.66 ft., Harold Osborn 1961: 7.38 ft., Valeriy Brumel, up 11% 1993: 8.04 ft., Javier Sotomayor...
...July 11 article entitled "Soviets Join Americans in Teaching Exchange" had a number of errors. The English as a Second Language Program should have been abbreviated ESL. The name of one of the Soviet exchange teachers is correctly spelled Valeriy Bychkov...
Those who define themselves by a specific adversary have always acknowledged the bond. A faded photograph from 1962: at a Soviet-American track-and-field championship in Palo Alto, Calif., Siberian High Jumper Valeriy Brumel sprang past Bostonian John Thomas for his world record of 7 ft. 5 in. The American crowd cheered without reservation. Thomas hugged and pounded Brumel. On impulse, Valeriy and Tennessee Long Jumper Ralph Boston took a lap around the stadium to unreserved applause. Only the audience has changed...
...PLEASURE FACTORY by Valeriy Tarsis. 224 pages. John...
...Bluebottle, a 1962 novel about an intellectual's disenchantment with contemporary life in Russia, Valeriy Tarsis mercilessly unstitched the britches of Soviet Communism-and let the whole world watch them come down. For slipping the book out of the country and having it published abroad, Tarsis was sent to the loony bin. After six months he was released and in 1965 came Ward 7 (also shipped out and published abroad), in which Tarsis made it clear that only in a madhouse can a Russian speak his mind. This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while...