Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through Connecticut's choppy Housatonic River to leave Yale 2½ lengths astern, round into top form for its big race this weekend against unbeaten Harvard in the Eastern Sprint championships at Worcester, Mass., a race that should produce the favorite to defend the U.S. crew gold medal in the Olympics this August in Rome...
...Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller, which had stood from 1927 to 1943. Australia's Jon Henricks, 24, a student at the University of Southern California, and 100-meter gold medal winner in the 1956 Olympics, did not even qualify for the finals...
After that it was just one great bewildering whirl of salesmanship. She withdrew $7,300 of her savings to buy a lifetime course, put two mortgages on her home to buy the $9,000 gold medal course and then the $12,000 lifetime executive course. By mid-July she had paid out over $25,000, had a nervous breakdown from worry over paying the rest. What sales technique had been used on Mrs. Frisch? Just sheer flattery. Admitted her instructor: "She idolized flattery." In the past, when similar complaints have popped up, Arthur Murray has neatly danced aside, pointing...
Archbishop Joseph Lefebvre, 67, was born in the French village of Tourcoing, near Lille, studied at Rome's Gregorian University (where he won the gold medal traditionally presented by the Pope to the graduate with the best grades). Since 1943 tall, jolly Joseph Lefebvre has been Archbishop of Bourges, made a favorable impression on the Pope when John was papal nuncio to France...
...Fresh from winning a gold medal at the Eighth Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley, blonde Carol Heiss, 20, stopped off in Vancouver long enough on her way home to New York City to win her fifth straight women's world figure skating championship with a stunning display of acrobatics and poise...