Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of the Soviet Union -Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...
Harvard junior Andy Berg left Cambridge last week for Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to rejoin the battle. The ad board gave him permission to take his only final exam in absentia, so Berg won't be returning to Harvard until next September, hopefully with an Olympic medal in the Tempest class gained by crewing for Andy Schoettle...
Schoettle has been in the battle a long time. He skippered a 5.5 meter in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne and came within 15 seconds of a bronze medal, and in 1960 served as an alternate for the 5.5 an Finn class. His brother crewed for Dr. Briton Chance in a 5.5 in the 1952 Olympics and came home with a gold medal, and finished second in a Tempest to Glen Foster in the 1972 U.S. trials and went to Keil as an alternate. He is no stranger to Olympic sailing...
...beat, however, appears to be Dennis Conner. And he will neither lack the weight (his crew Con Finley, an Olympic gold medal rower, is 6 ft., 7 in., 225 lbs.) nor sailing time, even though he has only been sailing in the class for a year. Since he bought two Tempests after the 1975 pre-Olympics at Kingston, Conner has spent some 200 days in his boat...
Apparently so, or there wouldn't be so many people like Schoettle or Connor or the Linvilles (who have been a team for seven years) or '72 gold medal winner Foster, or Argyle Campbell, or Bill Cox Jr., or any of the other dedicated combatants in the Tempest class...