Word: medaled
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Billy Mills, a 26-year-old Marine from Coffeyville, Kan., took 46 seconds off his best time ever yesterday and gave the United States its first gold medal in the history of the Olympic 10,000-meter...
...Mills' medal was the only one for the U.S. in track today. Finland's Paul Nevala won the javelin with a throw of 271 feet, 21/4 inches. Gergley Kulcsar of Hungary was second and Jan Lusis of the USSR third...
Three of the Crimson scores, led by Captain Jim Campen's medal-winning 75, were among the low five individual finishes. Sophomore Bob Sinclair tied for third place with a 77 and Brian McGuinn, another sophomore, finished in a deadlock for fifth place...
...Yalie accounted for the only U.S. gold medal of the day. Don Schollander, who will arrive at New Haven this winter, turned in a 53.4 to win the 100-meters freestyle swim. Cary Ilman was fourth and last year's Yale captain, Mike Austin, sixth...
Like any convocation of veterans, they compared waistlines. But it was not just an American Legion wingding. It was a Manhattan dinner for 103 of the 282 living holders of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and eulogizing them were Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley. The heroes included some famous names, such as Flying Ace Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero...