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Sullivan finished behind Princeton's Charles Forlidas, who shattered the 1975 H-Y-P meet record with a breathtaking 7-ft., 1 1/2-in. leap to claim first place...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: M. Thinclads Place 3rd Behind Princeton, Yale | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...usually-dominating Derek Horner placed fourth in the long jump with a 6.85-meter leap and then ran his best 55-meter dash of the season (6.39) to place second by one hundreth of a second...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: M. Thinclads Place 3rd Behind Princeton, Yale | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

Only one Crimson member managed to win an event in the men's meet. Freshman Derek Horner captured the long jump with a leap of 22'10". John Brzezenski threw a 55'7" in the 35-lb. weight throw, his best this season, but placed only fourth...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Tracksters Suffer Through Bad Weekend | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last year. There has also been a leap in sales of the MAC-10, a relatively cheap U.S.-manufactured semiautomatic; the AR-15, a semiautomatic copy of the U.S. military's M-16 infantry rifle; and a semiautomatic version of the Israeli-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Arms Race | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Introduction | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

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