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March 10, 1979--Senior track captain Geoff Stiles captures the NCAA indoor pole vault competition at 17 feet, 3 inches, setting a new Ivy League, New England and Harvard record. The thinclad two-mile relay team of Adam Dixon, John Chafee, Thad McNulty and John Murphy finishes third. The five trackmen make All-American as the Crimson grabs seventh in the nation...
...Angels or a Mork and Mindy. With a smasheroo to help pull up other shows, and with the Moscow Olympics to build on in 1980, NBC could be right back in the thick of things in 18 months. ABC did it in 1976, and its pretax profits' vault would make even "Bottom Line Ed" proud: from $17 million in 1975 to $110 million...
Because of the slippery conditions, Stiles did not attempt to improve his vault mark after clinching the competition. Last night at the team banquet, Stiles received the Harwood Pole Vault Award for the fourth straight year...
Captain Geoff Stiles capped a brilliant dual meet career by prevailing in both the pole vault (16 ft.) and the high jump...
...have been introduced and explored, usually with much more immediacy, by other writers. Take, for instance, the impact of television in reshaping American politics. Theodore H. White '38 in The Making of the President 1960 broke the story of the Kennedys' deliberate use of television and polls to pole-vault the regular party structure as well as time and space restrictions on national candidates. Joe McGinnis's The Selling of the President 1968, a case study of media merchandising, provided a much more chilling and prophetic account of Richard Nixon's packaging than all of Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes...