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...skinny, resourceful farm kid in Missouri, Mulkey used the head of a post maul as a shot put, a plow disk as a discus, a pitchfork handle as a javelin. He cut a bamboo tree into a pole and vaulted onto the garage. That was the beginning of a career that took him to the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Going into the finals in the decathlon, he needed only to clear his usual height of 14 ft. 10 in., in the pole vault to win a bronze medal. But he pulled a groin muscle and had to withdraw...
Garcia captivated the world at the PGA. While chasing Mr. Woods and coming up just a stroke short, Master Sergio accomplished a remarkable thing: he made the world's best player look old at 23. Here was the Spanish lad, eyes closed, slashing at a ball burrowed behind a tree, then sprinting up the fairway and leaping into the air to see the marvelous result. Here, meanwhile, was the American, eyes glassy, agonizing over 5-ft. putts that have in the past--though not this year--been his bete noire...
...other hand, had been sleeping, drooling and dreaming my way to the last hurrah of summer vacation. The assortment of poles, hooks and old tennis shoes in the backseat heralded the obvious--we were going fishing. (Note to the Harvard community at-large: this was no "hug-a-tree," catch-and-release, greeting-card-commercial fishing jaunt. We were playing for keeps. And, yes, fishing is still a sport. And this is the Sports page...
However, when a country tries to regain peace, the unexploded bomblets, or "duds," retard the process. They stay and do not know tank from child, peace from violence. These bitter presents of war, perhaps hiding under a tree branch, brightly colored and coded, are dangerously inviting...
FARM CHARM A statue designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1590s but not cast until this decade was erected in Milan last week, left. Meanwhile, Cow Up a Tree, by John Kelly, mooooved into Paris...