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...pole vault is technically the most difficult event in track and field; this year's Olympic contest may be the best ever. The 18-ft. barrier, narrowly broken in 1970 by Greek Chris Papanicolaou, was not disturbed again until last April, when Sweden's diminutive Kjell Isaksson soared 18 ft. 1 in. Since then the barrier has really been buffeted-including twice more by Isaksson and twice by Bob Seagren of the U.S. (TIME, June 19), a fledgling actor who hopes for a movie career. Seagren has cleared a world record height...
...immense blocks of speakers high on either side of the stage. The vowels mix stickily with the air of the auditorium, already saturated by the fume of tens of thousands of packed bodies, the smoke of 50,000 cigarettes and a few pounds of weed, forming an acrid blue vault overhead...
...guerrilla raids," but Cole (Cliff Robertson) wants the pardon. To raise money for a counter-bribe to the speaker, the gang sets off to rob a bank in the small town of Northfield, Minn. Cole knows for a fact that the money is waiting for them inside the vault. He has seen it in a vision...
...first day there," his mother recalls, "he asked me if he could go to the athletic field in Sundbyberg. How could I say no? He came home later with two gold medals. He had won the high jump, and then borrowed a bamboo pole and won the pole vault...
...pleasant afternoon in Los Angeles last week, Bob Seagren walked out onto the track, chatted amiably with his competitors and with A.A.U. officials, and then proceeded to win the pole-vault event. His best jump of 17 ft. 4 in. was not really much of an accomplishment for Seagren; he is co-holder with Sweden's Kjell Isaksson of the world's record of 18 ft. 4¼ in. set in El Paso, Texas, in May. But without top competition, Seagren explains, he can't reach the psychological plateau necessary to crack 18 ft. "In practice, even...