Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final day of the controversyridden 1968. Olympics in Mexico City yesterday, the United States captured two more gold medals to raise its total to a Games-leading 107, surpassing the Soviet Union for the first time since...
...brilliant swimming team captured the bulk of the American total with 58 medals out of a possible 89. The swimmers won more than half of the United States' 45 gold medals, sweeping...
...second place Soviet Union won 91 medals and trailed the U.S. in every category. The U.S. breakdown was 45 gold, 27 silver, and 36 bronze...
...Poland's Jerzy Pawlowski, 35, for all his slight stature and bald head, came to Mexico City as a latter-day D'Artagnan: in three previous Olympics he had won three silver medals in fencing and one bronze. This time he took a gold medal, winning 18 out of 20 bouts and the individual saber championship...
What Exley (the character) cannot come to terms with is his inability to own the streets paved with gold, his failure to capture the imagination of the crowd, his realization that he was never even meant to be a contender for the crown. He is, in effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most...