Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined to paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...
...next day of the meet, Beckford blazed through the age group mile in 4:51.2. just missing the gold medal by one-tenth of a second...
That season Beckford reset her mile record at the Mason-Dixon Games at 4:45, crossed the tape only one-tenth of a second behind Jan Murdoch for a silver medal in the 800 at the Milrose Games in New York and took third place at Senior Nationals in the same event...
DIED. Roger K. Fawcett, 69, president of Fawcett Publications; of cancer; in New York City. The Minnesota-born Fawcett succeeded his father as chief executive officer of the firm, which publishes magazines (Woman's Day, Mechanix Illustrated), paperbacks with the Crest, Gold Medal and Popular Library imprints and Charles Schulz Peanuts books. Fawcett sold the family-owned company to CBS in 1977 for $50 million...
...heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please his mother...