Word: medal
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...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...
...Singer David Byrne. And we continue to receive accolades from our peers. In 1986 TIME won the National Magazine Award for excellence in design, and the Overseas Press Club singled out TIME photographers for the Olivier Rebbot Award for photographic reporting and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for enterprising and courageous photojournalism...
...trial, one group of rapturous women was dubbed the "Dallas cheerleaders," and today others are pushing a petition to grant Dallas amnesty. They claim he did no wrong. Norma Hebbel, 61, explains, "Claude did what a lot of people would want to do. They should've given him a medal, not tried...
This week Ronald Reagan will present the Presidential Citizens Medal to Yeager, Rutan and his brother Burt, 43, Voyager's designer. Voyager, which reportedly cost $2 million and took five years to build, could wind up in the Smithsonian Institution. There, it would rest alongside such other craft as Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Mercury space capsule, an inspiration for future record breakers...
...early age, Hall had two passions: diving and politics. The first earned him a silver medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. The second was cultivated at home in Dayton, where his late father, Dave Hall, was mayor. Sam served one term in the Ohio legislature; his brother Tony is a liberal Congressman from Ohio who opposes Reagan's Nicaragua policy. According to Lawrence Hussman, an English professor who helped Sam chronicle his life story in an as-yet unpublished book, the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics was a turning point. "Sam feels very strongly about the Olympics...