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...Angeles last week, the two friends staged a furious duel that for drama even overshadowed two world record performances - a 17-ft. 6¼-in. pole vault by John Fennel, and a 2-min. 59.6 sec. clocking in the 1,600-meter relay. After nine grueling events, Russ Hodge led Bill Toomey by only 146 points, and Toomey struggled grimly through the 1,500-meter run knowing that he needed to beat Hodge by at least 21 sec. to get enough points to pull ahead. Breaking the tape, he collapsed exhausted on the infield grass and waited for Hodge...
...Vault in the Vatican. Her love of art helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
...pretty quaint to recall that Franklin P. Adams said: "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...
...Answers: 1) Philip II was wed to Maria of Portugal, Mary I of England, Elizabeth of Valois and Anna, daughter of Emperor Maximilian II; 2) Philip V could not abide Escorial's royal vault, was buried at his request at La Granja; 3) Isabel was so rewarded because she had been a reigning queen...
Schoonover, for instance, improved his pole vault performance by a foot during the Crimson's last two meets. Until the Heptagonal championships two weeks ago, he hadn't gone above 13-6 outdoors. But he cleared 14 feet to take second place in the Heps, and then broke through to a University record of 14.6 1/2 in Saturday's Army meet. The left-handed sophomore credited his improvement to the warmer weather...