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Like last year, though, the field events look to be the big point scorers for Harvard. Co-captain Dan Sullivan will soar in the high jump, multi-champion Geoff Stiles should continue to dominate the pole vault, and Sola Mahoney and Hasan Kayali have shown strength in the triple and long jump pits...
...limit. Insurance companies will not let him risk his million-dollar neck by piloting his DC-3. Travolta, grounded for the foreseeable future, consoles himself with fantasies of flight. "Gee," he remarked in the Los Angeles County Museum as he surveyed a vault among the treasures of King Tut, "wouldn't it be great if they opened up one of those tombs and found an airplane inside?" From the time he was small and watched commercials for Mars candy ("They were the best?they'd fly you right through the Milky Way"); from the times he got Sam Travolta...
...problem with a circular design is that sound diffuses quickly, bounces around, losing clarity and focus. Jaffe, with the Boettcher architects, Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, has managed to create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through his trademark concerto, Tchaikovsky's first, he was drowned out in one area of the hall whenever the orchestra...
...Turned into a burial vault...
Geoff Stiles, entering the meet as one of the East's top collegiate pole vaulters, led a trio of Harvard finishers with a vault of 16 ft. 4 in., to put Harvard ahead of New England rivals Northeastern, Rhode Island and Southern Connecticut...