Word: medalling
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None deserves a gold medal for perception (though the baron might merit a silver for idealism). Since their rebirth at Athens in 1896, the Games have seldom been remarkable for radiant union, and the XX Olympiad, which begins on Aug. 26, is not likely to prove an exception. Bickering among officials has almost become a separate Olympic event. Squabbles among competitors are less common, though sometimes more dramatic. At Melbourne in 1956, for example, a water-polo match turned into a miniature of the Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarian team beat the Russians in a brutal contest for the gold medal...
Awarded the Soviet Badge of Honor and a medal For Valiant Labor, Spassky lives in a modern Moscow high-rise with his second wife Larisa, who is an engineer, and their son. Of his first wife he says: "We were like bishops of opposite color." His $500 monthly income from exhibition matches and as chess coach of Locomotiv, a railway-union sports club, is one of the highest in the Soviet Union. Despite these rewards, Spassky has refused to join the Communist Party. "If Boris were a writer or a composer," says one grand master from an Iron Curtain country...
...propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit tee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nomination was rejected by a vote of the governing council. The academy president, Physics Professor Harvey Brooks of Harvard, wrote a confidential letter to certain members pointing out that many of their peers had suggested that memories...
...gamble, to be sure, and if the U. S. entry doesn't win a medal at Munich there will be criticism of this new concept and of Parker's selection of oarsmen. The first test will come later this month, when the crew goes to Lucerne. Switzerland for a regatta that will include some of Europe's best eights. A victory there could presage a medal at Munich, and vindication for Parker. Harvard's alumni Olympians and a novel concept in American rowing
...been made on his successor in Saigon, but the most likely choice is his deputy, General Frederick Weyand, 55, a tall, thoughtful man who would supervise the steadily dwindling U.S. presence in Viet Nam. Westmoreland, who retires June 30, is scheduled this week to receive the Distinguished Service Medal from President Richard Nixon as a parting gesture...