Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakfast of champions," and despite the intervening years, Bob Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want to get off a 13- to 14-ft. vault." After years...
...sweep of Penn and Princeton on the weekend that Carrabino celebrated his 23rd birthday would vault Harvard into first place in the race for the coveted Ancient Eight crown it's never won, and would give Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin 100 career victories...
...sweep of Penn-Princeton would not one vault McLaughlin's charges into the lead in the race for the Ancient Eight crown, but also would vault McLaughlin into the 100 Club...
...armored-car holdup last July in Ukiah, Calif.; and three shootouts with the police and FBI since October in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Eighteen people linked to the group have been arrested, including two Brink's managers charged last month with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco...
...armored car service, and both, authorities believe, were members of a secret, neo-Nazi organization called the Brotherhood of Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader and a suspect in the murder of Alan Berg...