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...mighty Met, long the second biggest U.S. company after A.T. & T. in terms of assets, and No. 1 in the insurance field for nearly half a century, lost honors to rival Prudential Insurance Co. of America. By the margin of $83,020,000, the Pru outdid its competitor, ended the year with assets of $23,594,698,000 v. $23,511,678,000 for the Met. Part of the gain was due to the fact that Prudential got a better return on investments...
...points in two events. Sophomore Calvin Hill won the broad jump effortlessly at 24 ft. 8 3 4 in., and teammate Paul Jones was close behind for second place. Powerful Mark Young won the 600. Those two victories were the first scored by an Ivy competitor in the ICIA's in two years...
...Rambler sales to 140,000 cars this year, recapture at least 10% of the compact market it once dominated. His main ammunition: price cuts of from $154 to $234. The $2,073 two-door Rambler sedan will now go for $1,839, which is well under its closest U.S. competitor, the $2,117 Chrysler Valiant, and only $200 more than the Volkswagen...
...weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good 6 in. to spare. Both jumps were nullified by Section 20(e) of A.A.U. Track and Field Rule No. 42, which specifies that a vault "shall be a failure if a competitor clears the bar, but having relinquished his hold on the pole, the latter passes underneath...
Such contortions, of course, might not be necessary if Bob Seagren could remember to flick the pole back with his thumb at the moment of release-as does Competitor John Fennel. "But that's instinctive with me," admits Pennel. "I just do it automatically. Bob hasn't been vaulting as long as I have." The fiber-glass pole apparently is not a factor in Seagren's troubles, but one problem may be the stickum with which Bob, like most vaulters, coats his hands to help him grip the pole better on his approach. Still, Seagren insists that...