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...Athletic Sports has been considering the dangers of fiberglass poles for several weeks, paying special attention to the "weight rating" which Harvard uses to make sure athletes do not vault with a pole that is too light for them. As a general rule, vaulters like to use the lightest pole possible, since light poles are more flexible and give a more vigorous snap, sending them higher into...
...Canadian have no limits. U.S. blends usually have 65% neutral spirits; Scotch and Canadian usually have 70%. Thanks to the trend to lightness, U.S. sales of Scotch have more than doubled in a decade to 9% of the market (most popular: Cutty Sark and J & B, two of the lightest blends), and light Canadian blends now account for two of the three biggest U.S. sellers (Seagrams' imported V.O. and Hiram Walker's Canadian Club). The market share of such high-spirited "white goods" as gin and vodka has jumped from 9% to 19% since...
...FIFTEENTH CENTURY COOKRY BOKE, compiled by John L. Anderson (92 pp.; Scribner; $4.50). This book (suitable for stopping only the lightest doors) might have been written by Chaucer's mother ("Take ye whyte of Eyroun a grete hepe"). But as it takes a half-hour to translate a recipe, it is not good for much except a wry smile. Blue-green jacket...
Amid all the conflicting hopes and claims, all authorities urged continued full use of Salk vaccine this year. Fortunately, 1961 is proving to be the lightest polio year on record since figures were first compiled in 1912, with only 234 paralytic cases to date, as against 680 at this time last year. Salk vaccine might be taking a beating, but it had gone a long way toward beating polio...
...second act opens in Tangier, the Casbah. Ali and the Arabs run through an effective rendition of "The Customer's Always Right," sung earlier on board ship by the purser and stewards. The scene shifts to the ship's nursery and one of the lightest bits of comedy in the entire production...