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Thinclad notes: Mel Embree placed first in the high jump with a 6 ft. 10 1/4 in. leap, setting a new Soldiers Field record. Kevin McCafferty, Ahmed Kayali, and John McCulloh took seconds in the shot put, triple jump, and high jump. Dartmouth's Mark Collins threw the javellin 229 ft. 8 in. to snap Adrian Tew's old Soldiers Field mark. Blayne Heckel vaulted only 14 ft. 6 in. but took first place in the pole competition...
...Starr and Cummins together wouldn't be able to make up for what Dartmouth Coach Ken Weinbel yesterday called a "not so strong jumping line-up." Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree, both plagued with an overloaded schedule, should be able to take a breather against the Big Green leaping corps...
...American political system is built in part on contingency planning, and it could be that what is happening in Washington is nothing more than that. Yet it is another part of the tide that rises against Nixon. On the day that Spiro Agnew resigned, Mel Laird looked at his old friend Jerry Ford, then the minority leader of the House, and he said, "Jerry, some day you are going to be President." Laird insists that he was looking down the line of normal political evolution to the 1976 election. But a lot of leaders in Government are now conditioning themselves...
...Crimson stalwart wasn't the only resident thinclad to pick up points while in Philadelphia. Mel Embree jumped to 6 ft. 10 in. and a fifth place in front of 32,000 fans in Penn's Franklin Field. Embree, the Harvard record-holder, at 7 ft. 1/4 in., said yesterday that he didn't jump his best because he "was a little tired...
...Mel Embree clears the 7 ft. 1 in. mark in the Big Mac Track Championship high jump, you might hear someone singing, "You deserve to break a record today, so get up and get away...