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Seen from outside, Kimbell Art Museum looks like a group of barrel vaults running horizontally across the flat terrain of Fort Worth. Five of the vaults are closed at the ends to form galleries, offices and storage space; their roofs, sheathed unexpectedly in lead, glisten like old pewter in the sun. The sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung...
...record-setting performance in the pole-vault by junior Jim Kleiger highlighted a busy weekend for the Harvard track team...
...Kleiger, who broke the University pole vault record last weekend in the U.S. Track and Field Federation meet at Dartmouth, set a facility record last night in the pole vault, Kleiger burled himself 16 feet, while teammates Blaine Heckel and Don Berg completed the sweep in the event for Harvard...
...Harvard field events team continued their winning ways, as Jay Hughes took first in the pole vault in 58 ft. 6 in., and Vin Vanderpool Wallace won the long jump with 22 ft. 11 in Freshman Mel Embree won the high jump for the second time...
Harvard expects no problems in the pole vault, the 35-pound and the shot. Pole vaulter Jim Kleiger finished first on Saturday in the USTFF meet at Dartmouth with a vault of 16'1 1:4. He should win easily. And Jay Hughes, who has finished first in the weight and shot in all three meets so far, should be able to do it again. Northeastern's Paul Rao and Bill Taylor could give him some trouble, but Hughes has thrown farther than either Huskie this year...