Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illinois' Ninth District embraces Chicago's Gold Coast as well as the city's crowded West Side tenements. In both neighborhoods, Representative Sidney Yates encountered uneasiness with the war. "But, to use a hackneyed phrase," Yates declared, "they don't want peace without honor...
...many heroes at the 1968 Win ter Olympics, the man who stands above all is a moody, onetime consumptive who complains of a nervous stomach and insomnia, and likes to talk in par ables. "When I was a child," says Jean-Claude Killy, 24, who last week swept three gold medals in Alpine skiing, "I had a friend named Gérard d'Agallier...
...Harvard, Krause has already re-written the record book in two events. His 4:55.8 clocking in the 500-yard freestyle eclipsed Don "Gold Medal" Schollander's pool record by 1.4 seconds. Krause also holds the freshman, Harvard, and pool records in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:02.3. He set both marks last Saturday against the Princeton freshmen...
...performance that won Peggy her Olympic gold medal was strictly 24-carat. For two days, under the intense scrutiny of nine judges, she traced on the ice "paragraph loops," "rockers" and "brackets" (all variations on the basic figure eight) with such precise symmetry that by the end of the compulsory figures-which count for 60% of a skater's score-she had a virtually unassailable lead of 77.2 points over her closest competitor...
...expert cryptanalyst and the Sunday-puzzle expert alike rely on the fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: "To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops lined up for inspection, but just as the sergeant knows his men as 'the gold-brick,' 'the kid,' 'the reliable soldier,' so the cryptanalyst knows the letters of the alphabet...