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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's President Sukarno worked his face up into a "say prunes" expression as a Soviet gift-bearer pinned a Lenin Peace Medal on him. The ruble equivalent of the prize: $25,000. As Sukarno saw it, the honor was fitting recognition of his overflowing "love for humanity...
Defeat & Victory. By the finals, the swimming meet belonged to Farrell. Spectators and rival swimmers alike cheered him every time he appeared at poolside. A teen-age girl pressed a religious medal into his hand. With a good start, a racing dive this time, Farrell was up with the leaders at the turn. But as he sprinted home, he struck a lane marker with his arm and for a moment floundered off-rhythm. He closed fast, and the finishing order was in doubt - to everyone but himself. Even before the announcement, he buried his face in a towel and moaned...
...appearance on College News Conference made sense because "kids like to talk over problems with someone their own age." Smoothing his edges somewhat when he appeared on the dais with Kennedy at Paul Butler's Beverly-Hilton dinner, Sahl pictured a line-up of war heroes getting their medals from President Truman in 1945. Harry, by Sahl's account, made the usual claim that he would rather have that medal than be President, and "all the guys agreed, except this thin lieutenant from Massachusetts." Casting a miscellaneous eye, Sahl thought it not unlikely that, after the playing...
Even so, the U.S. sprinters, who have not lost a gold medal since 1928, seem strong enough to dominate the 100 and 200 meters, and the 400-meter relay. "To beat one American sprinter is possible," says Italy's Dr. Robert Quercetani, president of the Association of Track and Field Statisticians. "But to beat all three is something else again...
...prosperous Sydney poultry farmer, Mackenzie earns a good living by chicken sexing, the occult craft of sorting out fluffy, day-old chicks by sex. A crack schoolboy rower, Mackenzie took up the individual sculls four months before the 1956 Olympics, learned fast enough to win a silver medal...