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...pole vault, McCurdy has battled graduation to a standoff. Fifteen-foot vaulter Geoff stiles returns from a strong freshman year, but all the depth he had last season is gone...
...perhaps hidden in some family vault near Melbourne, where a young boy of ten once frolicked in unburdened bliss, there is a rusty sled emblazoned with the word ... no, wait. It never snows in Melbourne, and Murdoch is no self-destructive Citizen Kane. America's newest press lord has only just discovered a whole nation of newspapers he does...
After making a bad bet on the horses in the London of 1820, a reckless dandy named Scrope Berdmore Davies crammed his personal papers into a trunk, stashed it in a bank vault and skipped the country. Doing a spot of housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont...
...Anaximander of Miletus described the sky as a sphere surrounded on the outside by wheels of fire; the stars, he thought, were the lights of these fires shining through tubelike breathing holes in the sky. Another citizen of Miletus, Anaximenes, believed the stars were fixed like nails to the vault of the heavens. Aristotle maintained that celestial objects were permanent, immutable and perfect. His notion so influenced Greek thought that when the astronomer Hipparchus spotted what seemed to be a new star in 134 B.C., he attributed his discovery to an omission by his predecessors. He also compiled the first...
Geoff Stiles continued Sullivan's levitation act with a two-leap total of 21 feet--that is, he placed second in the high jump at 6-ft. and he skied to victory in the pole vault with a 15-ft. effort...