Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of a truce to observe the Tet New Year holiday, the U.S. is unlikely to approve any temporary cease-fires in the future. Nor is it likely that Washington will want to risk a bombing pause any time soon. "We Americans will never yield," said Johnson during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the White House. American planes will continue to hit the North until there is "some better sign than these last few days have provided" of Hanoi's willingness to ease...
...sport, Alpine skiing only acquired Olympic recognition in 1936, and it has become virtually a private French preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
Three Quick Races. At Grenoble, Killy will need all his skills. The U.S.'s Billy Kidd, fully recovered from a broken leg that kept him out of action last year, is once again skiing with the methodical precision that won him a silver medal in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. Austria's Gerhard Nenning, 27, is going into the Olympics with two straight major downhill victories behind him; Switzerland's Du-meng Giovanoli, 24, and Edi Bruggmann, 24, have both defeated Jean-Claude twice in pre-Olympic slaloms. Yet those were merely warmups...
Suppose the Negroes go through with the boycott (and it is by no means clear that a large number will). The United States will probably win anywhere from 5 to 10 medals fewer than in 1964, when Negroes won 16. It is unlikely that the international audience--a main target of the boycotters--will be jarred by the protest, because there will be some Negroes competing; sprinter Charlie Greene has said, "It comes down to a matter if you're an American or if you're not. I'm an American and I'm going to run." 1964 medal winner...
...factors mitigating such a joint action by the Negroes and whites. First, the blacks don't want the whites. At the meeting in Los Angeles which first announced the boycott, white reporters were barred. Second, if Negroes like Greene are unwilling to give up the glory of an Olympic medal, then whites not immersed in the cause are even less likely to pass up the Games...