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...Southern Cal's Paul Wilson, 19, hardly looked strong enough to bend a vaulting pole, let alone provide any serious competition for U.S.C. Teammate Bob Seagren-who only two weeks before had set a new world record of 17 ft. 7 in. Wilson, who learned to vault using bamboo from neighbors' yards, soared 17 ft. 8 in. to beat Seagren's mark by an inch...
...Marines in the Libyan consulate fought off rioters with pickax handles, then retreated to the security vault until British soldiers could rescue them...
...city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of the King David Hotel. The glass panes in the Israel Museum were blasted out, and the Isaiah Scroll, most complete of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, was hastily moved into its underground vault. Most of the famed Chagall stained-glass windows in the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue were taken down in time, but a hole was blasted in one. Wrote Chagall from France: "I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe and I will make...
...yard dash -- Andersen (H) 9.7 (ties meet record), Hauck (O) 9.9, Jewett (H) 10.1, A. Ronay (O) 10.2. Pole Vault -- Schoonover (H) 14-0, Buck (Y) 12-0, Kidd (O) 11-6, Murphy...
Other Harvard winners were Keith Colburn, who captured the 880-yard run in 1:51.6; Frank Haggerty, victor in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles in 53.0; Henry Bernson, who heaved the javelin 211.11; and Steve Schoonover, whose disappointing 14 ft. win in the pole vault was reminiscent of the good old days of Harvard pole-vaulting before he arrived...