Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When play got under way in Mayaguez the Classics turned in their strongest outing against the talent-laden host team, favored to win the bronze medal at the Olympics in Montreal, clinging to a 35-34 lead at the half before succumbing...
...about the criticism of his refusal to meet with Russian Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn last July, President Ford recently moved to make amends. In an enthusiastic telegram to the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa., Ford said he was "delighted" at the award of the foundation's American Friendship Medal to the Nobel prizewinner. The President's pleasure might well have been diminished had he anticipated Solzhenitsyn's bitter attack on U.S. foreign policy, aired last week on William F. Buckley's public television show Firing Line...
Hank Aaron did it in baseball with home run No. 715; Jim Brown did it in football with seven 1,000-yard seasons; Mark Spitz did it in a swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden...
...Embree placed third in the high jump and Ed Ajootian copped a bronze medal in the 35-lb. weight throw to highlight Harvard's performance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Track Championship held over the weekend in Detroit...
Every once in a while, we like to share with our readers news of awards that TIME stories have won. Recently, there have been four such awards. The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge presented one of its George Washington Honor Medals to Business Editor George Church for his July 14 cover story examining the question "Can Capitalism Survive?"; another medal was awarded for our special 1776 issue. Associate Editor Frederic Golden received the American Institute of Physics' science writing prize for his Sept. 1 cover on earthquakes. Our June 30 examination of crime, written by Associate Editors Jose...