Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison as a sullen, scrappy teen-age con often banished to solitary confinement. Then he was encouraged to take up supervised fighting. His surliness vanished, and since 1970 little Bobby Lee has developed into the nation's best amateur flyweight boxer, with a good chance of winning a medal for the U.S. at the Olympic Games this summer in Munich...
...trying, I can never get over 16½ ft." Lack of competition will not be a problem this summer in Munich, however. Then the 6-ft., 175-lb. Seagren meets Isaksson in an aerial duel that very likely will decide who goes home with the Olympic gold medal in the event...
THAT'S WHY the summer camp was conceived. MIT coach Jack Frailey had argued ever since the Mexico games that maybe it was too much to expect one college, or one club, to have eight oarsmen who could win a gold medal against the kind of competition Europe, Australia and New Zealand was putting up. West German boats had won at Rome, and they had won at Mexico City. Quite possibly, they could win at Munich, too, unless a fairly radical change was made in the selection process for the U. S. team...
Still, the road to a medal of any sort will be a tortuous one. Since 1960, when West Germany's Ratzeburg crew snapped a 40-year American monopoly on the Olympic eight-oared title, the superiority of the European training programs, bolstered by improvements in equipment and rigging concepts, have resulted in consistent disappointment for American eights in international races. And despite an eagerness on the part of several U. S. rowing coaches to adopt new European methods, the gulf appears to be widening, if anything...
...Augustus Shannon, the educator and medical investigator who helped shape governmental policy toward medical research after World War II. Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1955 to 1968, he was associate director of the National Heart Institute from 1949 to 1952. In 1949, he received the Presidential Medal for Merit from President Truman...