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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could twist and spin both on the ground and in the air. A member of Dick Clark's American Bandstand troupe, Louganis danced to the latest hits and that summer became a hit himself, substituting a platform diving board for a platform stage and soaring to an Olympic silver medal...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Greg Louganis: Diving and Jiving | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

...Hall, the most significant honor he received in 1976 was not the bronze medal earned in competition, but rather the respect shown by fellow Olympians when they selected him to carry the American flag in the opening and closing cermemonies...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Hall: Olympics to Operating Room | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

After oberving the games at Mexico City, followed by the tragedy-marred Munich contests, and then arriving at Montreal eight years later to find guards with machine guns posted at all major entrances to the compound, the former silver and bronze medal winner is sensitive to the changing times and the politicization of the games...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Hall: Olympics to Operating Room | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

Glueck received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 1961. He and his wife received the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Criminal Anthropology and the University of Rome and the Beccaria Gold Medal of the German Society of Criminology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glueck, Noted Professor of Law, Dies at 83 | 3/13/1980 | See Source »

...brothers, xenophobia and chauvinism. In an odd but exactly appropriate way, the new sentiment was crystallized most purely in Americans' jubilation over the U.S. hockey team's performance in the Olympics-the Huckleberry Finn American underdogs whipping the Soviet superteam and then going on for the gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Return of Patriotism | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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