Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Costin provided the biggest story of the weekend. Swimming in five individual events, she won medal honors for each performance. Starting with a gold in the 200-yd. butterfly (2:16.6), the versatile Costin battled a sore shoulder that caused her great pain on Sunday and scored big for Harvard four more times...
...years (1950-68) that he held his top-level security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was given a suburban dacha, a sizable Moscow apartment and the princely salary (by Soviet standards) of $26,500 a year...
Born. To Peggy Fleming, 28, world figure-skating champion in 1966 at age 17, and Dr. Gregory Jenkins, 31: their first child, a son; in Stanford, Calif. Name: Andrew Thomas. Fleming, who brought the U.S. its only gold medal from the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, continued pirouetting for the Holiday on Ice troupe until last September...
...Rome, Mondale met for an hour with Pope Paul VI, who praised Carter's hopes to halt the global arms race. The Vice President gave the Pope a presidential Inaugural medal, adding, "I would have liked to give you a copy of the Inauguration speech, signed by President Carter, but my efficient staff left it on the plane." To which the Pope replied benevolently, "You have a very young staff. I am astonished...
...settlement to this problem." Other British diplomats are not so buoyant. Complained one last week: "It's a fearful slog. Both sides, black and white, are tossing tantrums and refusing to talk common sense. If Ivor gets anywhere with these adamant chaps he should have a medal...