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...Pardee has just these final two months to break 7 ft., but he could do it. He takes off several feet further back than the average jumper, getting tremendous spring from his forward motion. He can reach 6 ft., 7 in. with a backward roll, and could, with more upward and less forward spring, go much higher. Both Schoonover and Bell have shown rapid improvement, and, says McCurdy, they could break 15 ft. in the vault this spring...
...possible reduction of unemployment to 3 per cent of the nation's working force will cause "upward pressure on wage rates" as well as "rising effective wages," as hiring standards lowered and present workers upgraded as a result...
antennas (to warn dragsters coming up the other side of the dune). For the first competitive event, they lined up a few hundred feet from the base of an enormous 45°, 300-ft. dune; then each buggy in turn spewed out buckets of sand as it charged upward, bucking furiously...
...Your statement, "Another campus in Rolla . . . was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy" [Feb. 4], must surely be nominated as TIME'S understatement of the year. You missed a significant part of "Missouri's Upward Reach." The University of Missouri at Rolla is the largest undergraduate engineering and physical-science school west of the Mississippi, sixth largest in the nation. Founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, it has long had departments in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and geological engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics, as well as ceramics, mining and metallurgy...
...Missouri's Upward Reach" [Feb. 4], you note that Missouri University has elevated a St. Louis junior college to a co-equal university campus. What must be added is that Normandy's alert board of education recognized an opportunity when the Bellerive Country Club offered its soon-to-be-vacated property at a moderate price to the school district. An appreciative group of parents sprang into action to pass a bond issue and necessary tax to purchase the property, and an enterprising group of local public school administrators converted an opportunity into reality by establishing a two-year...