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...practitioner of the hold-on-for-dear-life, catapult-like technique of vaulting with fiber glass, Pennel used a long, 154-ft. approach "for speed," a high grip on the pole "for a bigger bend." He is aiming now for a 17-ft. vault and a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics. "I don't want to sound overconfident," he says, "but I think 17 ft. is within my reach." One little difficulty may interfere: after last week's meet Pennel noticed a crack in his borrowed pole. "I'm not going to worry," he shrugs...
...there was trouble around the bend. On May 11, 1894, Debs called out the workers in Chicago's Pullman shops, and the result was one of the bloodiest strikes in U.S. history. The A.R.U. was among its many casualties...
...entered Widener, only to find that what some people jocosely term "progress" had swept over this bastion of learning. Gone were the little blue cards I had known and loved! In their place were IBM cards with the pompous instructions, PLEASE WRITE FIRMLY TO MAKE CARBON DO NOT BEND CARD...
Over the past few months, Sukarno has desperately tried to block the formation of the Tunku's Malaysian Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, which would successfully contain his expansionist ambitions. Indonesia has threatened Malaya with force, ranted that the Tunku was "round the bend." But at a surprise meeting in Tokyo last week, Sukarno and Abdul Rahman embraced each other as if they had been exchanging posies instead of brickbats...
...swirled and swooped with a life of its own. A woman did not wear clothes: she let silks and satins flow over her in the same kind of swoops and swirls. As for the flower, it contained nature's most delicate lines and its subtlest forms. The beautiful bend of a supple stem, the gentle curves of a petal, the organic flow of line and form into each other-these were the secrets of the flower that Mucha wanted to impose on everything man designed...