Word: iolanda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tamara and Irina, who between them own four world records (and are known to their competitors as "the Press brothers") stayed home to care for their sick mother. Russian Runners Tatiana Schelkanova and Maria Itkina were side lined with undisclosed injuries. Rumania's towering (6 ft. ½ in.) Iolanda Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing an Ace bandage. She was, according to Rumanian track officials, suffering from a "calcified right tendon," and might never be able to compete again. Maria Vittoria Trio, a raven...
Married. Anthony Quinn, 50, Hollywood's exuberant Zorba the Greek; and Iolanda Addolori, 31, former Italian fashion designer and mother of two of his six children; he for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...proud of. "I couldn't go home without a medal," panted Cuba's Enrique Figuerola, who ran the race of his life to finish second behind Bob Hayes in the 100-meter dash. Japan swept three gold medals in Western-style wrestling. Rumania's leggy Iolanda Balas broke her own Olympic high-jumps record by 2½ in., soaring 6 ft. 2¾ in., and Kenya's Wilson Kiprugut won his new country's first Olympic medal when he placed third in the 800-meter...
...Iolanda Balas of Rumania took the woman's high jump and Ken Matthews of Great Britain took the 20-kilometer walk in the other track finals yesterday...