Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump set a new Olympic record with 2.18 metres. Jumpers had to pass 2.06 metres to qualify for the final. The bar started at 1.90 metres, increasing gradually to 2.06 metres. Each jumper had three attempts at each height or could skip any lower height (but could not return to a lower height if he determined that he could not succeed). Each jumper again had three attempts at each height, with the bar starting at 1.90 metres. Three jumpers were unable to perform as well as they had in the qualification. Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
The Chances The Chances The Chances is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher. It was one of Fletcher's great popular successes, "frequently performed and reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." The play's Prologue assigns the play to Fletcher alone; since his distinctive pattern of stylistic and textual features is continuous through the play, scholars and critics regard Fletcher's sole authorship as clear and unambiguous. For the plot of his play, Fletcher depended upon Miguel de Cervantes, one of his regular sources; "The Chances" borrows from "La Señora Cornelia," one of the "Novelas ejemplares," first published in