Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another lawyer who favors a strict-constructionist court, Freshman Democrat William Spong of Virginia, went through a similar process in arriving at his anti-Carswell decision, though there was no emotional conclusion like Cook's experience at the Medal of Honor ceremony. Spong, too, had voted for Haynsworth, and he had also started out for Carswell. "I agree with the President that there is the need of a Southerner on the court," Spong said. But Carswell's printed opinions as a district court judge turned out to have been reversed, when appealed, nearly three times as often...
...year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold a 37% interest to the government. Sales have since quadrupled...
...Navy match capped an exhausting two-week stay in the South. Playing for the first time since last season, the golf team frequently practiced twice a day, and played seven rounds of medal play competition before the close win over the Middies...
Billy Kidd, 26, the top U.S. skier, went everyone one better. After winning the gold medal for the best overall performance in the downhill, slalom and giant slalom, he announced that he was turning professional. A week later at Verbier, Switzerland, Kidd competed against 39 other pros in a series of races and schussed off with total winnings of $6,500 in what was billed as the first World Professional Skiing Championships. This week the touring pros moved into Vail, Colo., to race for $50,000 in prize money...
Many an athlete, once past his prime, proves unable to hold on to a job or his dignity. Emil Zátopek, 47, Czechoslovakia's four-time Olympic Gold Medal winner for long-distance running, has recently lost one job after another -but not his dignity...