Indoor track can be a three-ring circus, with so much going on in the space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first. This winter it is "Look quickthere goes another world's record." Three weeks ago, at the Millrose Games in New York, the 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...
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