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...fiber glass poles, skivvy-suited acrobats are soaring to unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry U.C.L.A. senior named Yang Chuan-kwang thundered 120 ft. down a runway and slammed his pole into the take-off well. Boing! Wheel...
...Yang, 29, does not even regard pole vaulting as his speciality. The son of a Formosan farmer, he came to the U.S. to study track and field five years ago, learned so fast that he ranks as one of the world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls...
Last May, Yang traded his old-fashioned aluminum vaulting pole in for a more flexible fiber glass model. "I had to learn to wait, wait for that pole to snap." But Yang slowly got the hang. "On the U.C.L.A. practice field,'' he recalls, "we had to put blocks under the uprights to get them up to 16 ft. Every time I hit the crossbar, one upright would fall over and hit me on the head...
...September, as much for self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
...Chinese best-seller this summer, with more than a million sales, was "Red Crag," by Lo Kuang-pin and Yang Yi-yen. This 420,000-word blockbuster, set in Chungking in 1949, "describes the bitter struggle between the people and the U.S.-Chiang reactionaries." Its critical scenes occur "behind the bars of the so-called Sino-American Co-operation Organization (SACO), a big concentration camp jointly operated by the U.S. imperialists' secret service and its lackeys, the Chiang gang. They use all the most diabolical means of torture to crush the will of the captured Communists...