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Kathy Rice's victory in the long jump was the 'Cliffe's most impressive showing. Besides providing one of the team's few winning performances, her 18' 3/4" leap qualified the sophomore for the National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field meet...
...course, inflation is unsafe at any speed above 4% or 5%. The latest rise was mostly due to a weather-induced leap in food prices, and economists in and out of Government tend to concur with Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, that "in two or three months, the food problem will be completely played...
When Secretary of State Cyrus Vance walked down the ramp of his Air Force jet into the glare of spotlights at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport late last week, he was, symbolically at least, taking a mighty leap in the dark. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who arrived with the Vance party, cabled that Vance's welcome was warm enough: "He was greeted properly by his Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko, and he and his wife were given the traditional bouquet of red carnations. They posed for pictures with Gromyko on a clear, 35° night and, after a short...
...answer to Chaplain Landman's letter about the "intellectual chutzpah" of proselytizing [March 7]: Yes, it does take a leap of faith to claim the Scriptures as the only source of God's truth; and to someone who doesn't accept Christianity the claim may indeed sound absurd. But in the final analysis that is the whole point of Christianity. The Scriptures aren't a philosophical methodology or an ethical system (although they include those things), but the Word...
Dunk. The word does not do justice to the majesty and the savagery of the act. First comes the ballet move-an explosion in the legs, a concussive last step and then a great leap. Floating, twisting, pulling free of the floor, drifting over dazed defenders. Then the frozen moment, suspended above the basket, serene for a timeless instant. Finally the kill: ramming ball through rim in a single ferocious stab of hostility and triumph...