Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of gold has skyrocketed too, but Tiffany, the New York jeweler commissioned to design and strike medals for the Games, agreed to supply them at 1978 prices. The designers hit a snag, however, when they submitted their sketches: the Lake Placid Organizing Committee responded with a veto. The reason: the medals' obverse side showed the rolling Adirondack Mountains, but not the peak where one of the committee members owned a farm. The medals were redesigned and the mountains were shifted. The medal winners of 1980 will always have a view of one committeeman's homesite...
...Massachusetts, two each from Michigan and Wisconsin), then sent off on a grueling, 61 -game schedule (the National Hockey League regular season schedule is only 80 games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset in the Squaw Valley Games (see box page 83). But the team could surprise everyone with its hybrid style, matching traditional North American aggressiveness with European finesse. ("Sophisticated pond hockey," Brooks calls it.) Against a variety of college, N.H.L. and foreign national...
...Bowdoin committee awards the prize each year to two graduate students submitting excellent English essays on any subject. Winners receive a bronze medal, a sheepskin certificate...
MARRIED. Sugar Ray Leonard, 23, pugilist whose winnings include an Olympic gold medal (in 1976), the World Boxing Council's welterweight title (last year), and praise from Muhammad Ali ("He's a miracle"); and Juanita Wilkinson, 23, mother of Ray Jr., 6, their son; both for the first time; in Landover...
...From the daily glut, his wife picks out the valuable objects for resale. But at Manhattan's Empire Diamond & Gold Buying Service, where the queues form two hours before the store opens, almost everything goes to the smelter. Says Owner Jack Brod, who bought a Spanish-American War medal for its weight and paid only $75: "We might get more from a collector, but it's not worth looking for one or waiting. We'll melt...