Word: medal
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Since graduating, Slichter has advised a variety of federal agencies, served on the Presidential Committee on the National Medal of Science, and been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1947 to 1963. But, he says, "Most of all I like to be a professor of physics. Most administrative jobs require that you quit the primary job of being a professor. The Corporation job lets me do both...
Britain's strong hope for a medal, Swimmer Adrian Moorhouse, said the withdrawals "touched me personally." His two keenest rivals in the breaststroke are Soviets. "Not for one moment do I feel any relief that the Russians might not be racing against me," Moorhouse, 19, said. "It must be heartbreaking to give up so much time, to sweat away in training and then be ordered not to compete just for political reasons...
This is a pang familiar to U.S. athletes, those without a place to play in 1980, particularly the ones unable to hold on another four years. "I was mad. I was bitter," remembered Chicago Runner Rosalyn Bryant, 28, whose best chance at a 400-meter medal may have evaporated with the Carter boycott. "But what can you do? The President is making the decision; he's somebody you never see. So you take it out on your family, on people you're around all of the time." Only 14 then, Gymnast Julianne McNamara could react to that boycott...
...missions." Over four years, he figures, he has signed up enough people to fill an infantry company. A smart company too: five of Yasenak's privates were college graduates, and his recruits tend to score better on their military entrance exams than the Army demands. But his new medal and his prize, a week for two in Hawaii, are not simply rewards for high body counts. After all, recruiters elsewhere have signed up many more. Army review boards in three cities probed and quizzed him about everything from nerve gas to NATO politics, and they decided that...
Ownership of ESPN will further ABC's overall dominance in sports programming, an area where the network never settles for the silver medal. ABC paid a record $225 million for television rights to the Summer Games, and the company last January won an auction for the 1988 Calgary Winter Games with an unprecedented offer of $309 million. Said William Suter, who follows broadcasting at Merrill Lynch: "It was a natural fit. They'll do a lot for each other." ABC will gain a huge audience of subscribers, and ESPN will share in ABC's access to events...