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...leap also established new meet, stadium, and University outdoor records. Embree also broke his own mark of 7 ft. 1 1/2 in. set last spring in the Heptagonal championships...
Hassan Kayali, the triple-jump star who normally shares the limelight with his brother Ahmed, had center stage all to himself yesterday. With his older sibling sidelined by a cold, Hassan won the triple jump with a leap...
...half-way mark, Harvard had again managed to pull even with Coast Guard. With 500 to go, the Crimson had a half-length lead. Tired of playing leap frog, the heavies rowed cautious and efficaciously toward the finish...
...York's board of regents last week voted unanimously to require all high school students in the state to pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate. Several of the regents hailed the new standard as a "giant leap forward." After all, the New York City board of higher education, seeking to restrict the "open admissions" policy of the City University of New York, decided last December to impose an even less taxing standard on college entrants: an eighth-grade reading level in English...
...private institution, let alone university, in the United States had ever attempted a drive of this proportion before. "It was a quantum leap from anything thought of at the time," Pusey recalled last week. "With the expanding economy and the mounting operation expenditures, the costs of standing still were enormous, and this occupied me constantly," Pusey added...