Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lots of commentary and business reporting--and turned to the stuff that neither television nor the more respectable print outlets were doing. The Post went heavily into crime ("Gutsy Hell Camp Victim Foils Thugs"--a story about a mugging of a concentration camp survivor in yesterday's edition), sentiment ("Medal for New York's bravest little girl...") and gossip (at least two pages worth every day). Then he packaged it in the most attention-grabbing manner, hired the most garish cartoonist in the United States, David (Rorshach Test) Rigby, and started pushing it in the morning as well...
Although many colleges have had cycling teams for several years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of teams in the last few years. Smith believes this increase is due to the enthusiasm for biking generated by Eric Heiden, an Olympic gold medal winner who now competes in professional cycling, and to the movie "Breaking Away...
...crew, the only Harvard eight over to represent the U.S. in the Olympics, could not realize its greatest dream, however: to win an Olympic gold medal, finishing sixth in the rarified atmosphere of the Mexican capital...
...these aren't the only crew members who have gotten together since Mexico City. Three of the '68 oarsmen--Hoffman, Livingston and Fritz Hobbs--row each year in the Head of the Charles with their boatmates from the 1972 Olympic silver-medal winning crew. Known as "Free-wheeling Frankie," Hobbs graduated from the B-School in 1972 and now works on Wall Street...
...Place to Live: The Crisis of the Cities (1968) and Back to the Drawing Board! Planning Livable Cities (1979). Von Eckardt was a recipient of one of the first Ford Foundation grants for writers in the arts, and is the holder of an American Institute of Architects medal for distinguished criticism of architecture. Two weeks ago he was in the noted "new town" of Tapiola, Finland, to receive the Tapiola medal for promoting the idea of well-designed planned communities...