Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't always that bad in East St. Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast to visit friends. But today the hottest ticket in East St. Louis is a ticket out of it. The two high schools produce perennial state champions in football and basketball, putting - a few gifted athletes on the road to college, hoping for stardom in the N.F.L. or N.B.A. For other youngsters...
...hope I see them on the cover of U.S. Rowing magazine with gold medals around their necks years down the road," O'Leary says...
Dave Berkoff, gold medal around his neck, smiling on a television broadcast from Seoul. Travis Metz wet and shivering on the banks of Lake Quinsigamond after an Eastern Sprints...
...easy to be blinded by the glare of the gold medal. To remember St. Paul, Minn., and forget Cambridge, Mass...
...author's nights to remember are less dramatic. Recalling his marathon coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Baker downplays the pageantry in favor of offstage vignettes, like long lines of colonial potentates in animal skins and gold braid forming to use Westminster Abbey's toilets. The Eisenhower White House produces little excitement, partly because there wasn't much, but mainly because Press Secretary James Hagerty ran a "tight, tight ship." Later there was the smothering style of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "For you, Russ, I'd leak like a sieve...