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...Pennel has competed in eleven indoor meets, won in ten, been voted the outstanding athlete in three. Last month, at the Los Angeles Invitational meet, he soared over the bar at 16 ft. 9½ in., to break the world record set in 1963 by Finland's Pentti Nikula. Not bad for a 25-year-old wine salesman who has not prac ticed in more than a year and knows that each time he jumps may be his last...
...Soviet Union's rubber-legged broad jumper, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, casually smashed Ralph Boston's old record with a prodigious leap of 26 ft. 10 in. The pole-vault record has been boosted five times by four different vaulters, the last a muscular Finn named Pentti Nikula, who soared an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in. How much faster, farther and higher can the athletes go? Lots, it seems...
Yang expected his record to be broken quickly. And so it was. Before the week was out, Finland's Pentti Nikula. 23, tuning up for a U.S. trip at a small indoor meet at home, vaulted an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in., thus raising the mark by 5½ in. in one prodigious jump. "It came as no surprise to me," said the wiry Finn, who last June set the outdoor record of 16 ft. 2½ in.: "I am in top shape, and I'll shoot for 17 ft. next time...
Comes along Ilarion Droc of Nikula, where they paint the pictures of the saints that Ilarion peddles through the countryside. The two set off. On the theory that "it is better if one lives . . . than if one does nothing but regard the lives of other people," they have little to do with each other at first. Before the book ends they are bosom friends. Ilarion makes for towns to peddle his pictures in; Wanderluster Baerlein devotes most of his attention to ancient legends and modern lassies...