Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad jump group is strong and deep, with Ohiri, Beckwith, Axikiwe, Sid Marland, and Al Albright. The pole vault, with Don Forte and Jay Mahaney, will still be weak. Armstrong in the javelin and Loern Clayman in the discus could be pleasant surprises, but have yet to prove themselves...
...track barriers that once seemed as formidable as the Great Wall of China are crumbling like castles in the sand. In a single season indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four novels, dozens of stories and sketches ("It's his work - you could smell
OuHhinking the Bar. So far this season, Uelses' timing has been flawless. "It was a dream vault," recalls the University of Maryland's vaulting coach, George Butler, who watched Uelses smash Bragg's record in Washington. "The only perfect leap I ever saw. I'm sure he would have made it if the bar was at 16 ft. 4 in.-with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard...
...shot 56 ft., 9 3/4 in., and Sarge Nichols came up with a personal best of 54 ft., 1 3/4 in. for second place. Sid Marland contributed a 22 ft., 10 1/4 in. broad jump. Other varsity winners were Ted Bailey in the weight, Don Forte in the pole vault, and George Jones and Marty Beckwith in the high jump...