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...holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching the rim...
Expert Envoy. From Ottawa, Steinhardt traveled from one end of Canada to the other. When Canadian and U.S. troops finished Exercise Sweetbriar on the rim of the Arctic two months ago, he was on hand in bitter weather to watch the windup. He made friends officiating at such functions as the Stampede in Calgary and the dog derby in Ottawa...
Overcome by black fumes at the rim of the volcano, she spends the night on a lava bed and awakens (without a smudge on her face) to a morning scene of serene grandeur. Then, with no dramatic preparation but her awed look and a line of dialogue ("What mystery! What beauty!"), an offscreen narrator baldly announces that she has found the religious strength to return to her husband...
...bright day in 1947 the glory of Lange and Salve reached its peak: a detachment of the Garde Republicaine rode out to an apartment house in the seedy Menilmontant district on the northeastern rim of Paris. The sun glinted on the guardsmen's silvery helmets and on the glossy black hides of their horses. While they held aloft their sabers in salute, while trumpets blared and drums rolled, an officer unveiled a bronze plaque on the apartment house wall: On the fifth floor of this building in July 1940 under the direction of the fervent patriots Lange, called "Alcyn...
Harvard and Yale do their share of worrying about the world. Today we can let go. Nothing beyond the rim of the Bowl is worth a plugged nickel just...