Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the U.S. team is strongest in track & field events. No one seems to stand a chance against the U.S.'s three shot-putters, Parry O'Brien, Darrow Hooper and Jim Fuchs, all capable of beating the European record by a good two feet. In the pole vault, an event the U.S. has lost only once, the Americans this year have two 15-footers, Rev. Bob Richards and Don Laz, who are expected to finish one-two, with the U.S.'s George Mattos in third place. The best U.S. high jumper, Walt Davis, is in a stratosphere...
Champion's Confidence. A lineal descendant of the ancient pentathlon,* the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance ever devised: four running events (100, 400 & 1,500 meters and the 110-meter hurdles); six field events (javelin, discus, shotput, pole vault, high jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper...
...team, constantly checking in his mind the complicated point score, deciding when to push himself to the limit, when to hold back to conserve his energy. Even when he was a green 17-year-old at the 1948 Olympics, he steadfastly refused to take his turn at the pole vault until the bar was set at 10 feet. He saw no point in wasting his energy on heights he was sure he could clear. His final vault...
...Line Railroad earlier in the summer, and had a $1,500 price tag on his head. Bank Cashier A. D. Noblitt spoke carefully when they walked in on him and began waving their six-guns under his nose-he had to tell them that the time lock on the vault would not open for an hour and a half...
...spot announcement, broadcast over Manhattan's longhair station WQXR: "This is a wonderful country. In the good old U.S.A., we have the great privilege of having our own ideas. For example: one day a charming American lady came to Lincoln Warehouse Corp. . . . She rented a vault for the storage of her furniture. She wanted the walls and ceiling of the vault painted exactly the same as her apartment so that her furniture would have the same setting as in her own home. She got what she wanted. Whatever your ideas may be, you know your furniture is safe with...