Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain Embree will be the main challenger to pre-meet favorite Dwight Stones. The Long Beach State senior has been tabbed as America's gold-medal hope in this summer's Olympic games at Montreal. But Embree, who has qualified for the upcoming Olympic trials, hopes to pull off an upset similar to his victory over Stones in the 1975 Milrose Games...
...compared to America's greatest Wrestlers. He hasn't even been able to break into the top ten contenders list for the west coast, which is the easiest of all the professional wrestling conferences. The likes of Man Mountain Mike or Pedro Morales could easily win the Olympic wrestling medal--or any other Olympic medal, for that matter! It is a fair bet, in my opinion, that a dozen or so big time wrestlers could win the World Series, the Super Bowl, or any of the other titles in those other boring, unrealistic sports...
...more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism's most esteemed award, the Pulitzer gold medal for public service...
...Daily News won its medal for a 15-part expose of the rise to wealth and power of Alaska Teamsters Union Local 959. In 18 years, the paper discovered, the local grew from an undistinguished 1,500-member unit to an aggressive organization some 23,000 strong, with tentacles reaching into every aspect of Alaska's economy. Rewarded for their solidarity with high wages and a blizzard of benefits, Local 959's members include workers on the Alaska pipeline, policemen, hospital employees, bakers, stevedores, lab technicians and clerical workers-or one out of every ten working Alaskans...
...Pulitzer gold medal is something of a personal vindication for Fanning, who has constantly advocated investigative reporting by her staff. The daughter of a Joliet, 111., banker, she came to Alaska with her three children in 1965 after divorcing Marshall Field IV, owner of the Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times. In 1966 she married Lawrence Fanning, a Field editor, but instead of settling in Chicago they stayed in Anchorage and bought the Daily News for $450,000. Under Kay Fanning's guidance, the paper has been fighting to reverse a long circulation slide and last year signed...