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Indoor track can be a three-ring circus, with so much going on in the space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first. This winter it is "Look quick-there goes another world's record." Three weeks ago, at the Millrose Games in New York, the Soviet Union's rubber-legged broad jumper, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, casually smashed Ralph Boston's old record with a prodigious leap of 26 ft. 10 in. The pole-vault record has been boosted five times by four different vaulters, the last a muscular Finn...
...extraordinary array of originality, talent, ingenuity, and stimulating competition," said Robert Moses in good circus-barker style. "There is more to come...
...kind of entertainment offered varies across the country. A Washington, D.C., firm called Parties Unlimited has about a dozen basic-package parties, ranging in theme from Prehistory (with paper dinosaurs as individual favors) to Outer Space (a launching pad with rocket balloon for centerpiece). Last November it supplied the circus decorations for Caroline and John Kennedy Jr.'s joint birthday party at the White House. Average cost for a complete party, including extras, for 20-24 children...
...covered with Buildings & Ruins the Whole way. The Whole put one in mind of the Appian Way on account of the numerous remains of considerable buildings." The watercolor that resulted from this visit shows the Daniells' camping party established outside the gate like a prosperous traveling circus...
...should leave here convinced that we're not going to leer and snicker about these rules any longer," said Gail E. Thain '64, president of Whitman Hall. "The circus atmosphere around the rules, plus the snide comments and over-dramatized conflict that accompanied the rules last Spring has made it impossible to enforce the rules...