Word: herculean
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Apolitical as they are supposed to be, the Olympic Games rarely are free of political intrigue and controversy. In 1936, Adolf Hitler tried to make them a showcase for Aryan supremacy, and might have succeeded but for the herculean efforts of a U.S. Negro named Jesse Owens. The 1956 Summer Games were marred by bitter East-West disputes, denunciations and defections-understandably enough, since they were staged soon after the Hungarian revolt and the Suez crisis. And last February's Winter Olympics at Grenoble produced their quota of incidents: the angry withdrawal of North Korea-because it insisted...
Some two years ago, Wall Street whiz-bang Meshulam Riklis assigned himself a Herculean task. He aimed to take over Schenley Industries, Inc., one of the nation's biggest distillers (1967 sales: $518 million), through a merger with Glen Alden Corp., part of the $1.4 billion sales complex that Riklis, 44, has shuffled together...
...never been seriously questioned. There was no lack of dissent about the bombing and the basic U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but rarely had a commander in the field been so immune to technical criticism of his own performance. Justly, management-minded Westmoreland was given great credit for the herculean logistical feats of 1965 and 1966. Until last year, anyway, his basic strategy, a compromise between search-and-destroy and a holding operation in the populated areas, seemed to be successful...
Facing a 3-0 deficit at the start of the second period, Harvard started a comeback. After squandering two St. Lawrence penalties, the Crimson finally scored on a herculean effort by Ron Mark at 14:43. Mark took the puck at the Harvard blue line, wheeled and twisted through several St. Lawrence defenders and beat goalie Jerry Healey for an unassisted goal. But Erickson deflected in a Larrie shot at 18:53, and Harvard ended the period no better off than before...
...whom top Democrats regard as the most formidable threat to Lyndon Johnson next year, professes with diminishing credibility that he is not interested in being President. More important, Nixon has gained widespread acquiescence to the idea of his candidacy. Party leaders, many of them indebted to Nixon for his herculean campaign labors, have come to view him as an acceptable candidate who at least would not sunder the party as Barry Goldwater did three years ago-even though some doubt that he could...