Word: vault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year long, American athletes have been popping records like soap bubbles, so far have set new world marks in ten events. In the 24 Olympic track and field events, U.S. athletes right now are good bets to win 13 first places, and, in a few-the pole vault, shotput, 800 meters, etc.-Americans may well finish one-two-three. Nine long-legged American Olympic prospects have high-jumped higher than the Olympic record (6 ft. 8¼ in. by the U.S.'s Walter Davis); three have tossed the shot over 60 ft. (far past the Olympic mark...
...reporting team labored for three months transcribing the recordings, going to San Francisco and Seattle to check the information in the tapes. As security measures in Portland, they kept the recordings in a bank vault, worked in hotel rooms that they frequently changed, rode in rented cars that they switched almost daily...
...Smith and Don Richards tied Eli Walt McConnell in the pole vault at the low, for them, height of 12 feet, while Jack Murphy tied for second...
...Crimson coach was also Southern Conference pole vault champion at Duke. He comes to Cambridge after having completed a tour of duty as a jet pilot with the Air Force in Europe...
...most of its other meets, the Crimson is a distinct threat to sweep the two-mile, and to score well in the middle distances, the shotput, hammer, javelin, and pole vault...