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Parson Bob Richards, 24, a philosophy teacher at La Verne College, Calif., had his hands full keeping up with Illinois' Don Laz, 21, in Philadelphia. They wound up in a tie at 14 ft. 9 5/8 in. It was good pole-vaulting, but still not within breath-holding distance of 15 feet. The breath-holding came in Boston. After clearing the bar easily at 14 ft. 9½ in., Richards tried for the elusive 15. He missed the first time. On his second try, with the crowd on seat-edges, he went over beautifully, only to flick...
...hours later Padre Vélaz got word that the plane was lost. Next day the wreckage was sighted in the high Andes, 55 miles to the east. His black cassock flying, Padre Vélaz clambered aboard a special plane. By nightfall, with 15 volunteers and a hardy baqueano (ranger),the padre was climbing up the craggy trail toward the lofty Páramo de Dos Torres...
...track soon grew so steep that the men had to climb on their hands and knees. Only fog-filtered moonlight lit their way. Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...
...dawn the searchers gathered up the broken bodies. Padre Vélaz could not identify most of them, but carefully copied the laundry marks in their clothing. Then he helped enshroud his students in sheets. At 9, the party, carrying the shrouded bodies slung between poles, began its downhill procession. At the foot of the mountain, footsore and unshaven, Padre Vélaz met and talked with some of the boys' fathers, completed the work of identification by telegraphing for a list of school laundry numbers. Then he took charge and directed the task of soldering the zinc coffins...
...bright sunlight at the Southern General cemetery, not far from the flower-heaped grave of Venezuela's murdered President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, twelve coffins were lowered into one large grave, others into family plots. Then, as the parents turned away to their cheerless Christmas, Padre Vélaz flew back to the classrooms of the Colegio...