Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's the kind of perseverence it takes to win the silver medal in the 1978 Skate Canada Competition or the Richmond Trophy in a competition for Senior Ladies held annually in England...
THOUGH LOOKING GLASS is a disappointment, the Mather House production and especially the cast should be awarded a collective medal for a game try. The costumes designed by Liz Perlman were clever to the point of genius. Humpty-Dumpty's even got a round of applause. The players for the most part tried to overcome the weight of the show and even managed to succeed at times. Kitty Kean as Alice captured the innocence and charm of Lewis Carroll's character so well that it was easy to forget she was about three inches taller than half the people...
...York City. We spoke only briefly amidst a throng of minglers and I asked why she had come to the United States. In reply, she dug around in her purse, and proudly produced a small box. Mystified, I held out my hand and she placed a heavy gold medal in it. Upon closer inspection I realized I was holding a Nobel Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried...
DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...
...Button '52 did not attend the dinner. "He was going to be here, but he had to go to Florida to tape a television show," John Arnold '54, former President of the Varsity Club, said. Button was honored for his superb skating performance which won him an Olympic gold medal...