Word: medals
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...recognize the most precious resource of the United States - the brain power of its young people - to encourage the pursuit of intellectual attainment among all our young people." This week the first year's scholars, 121 strong, gather in the White House for a presidential handshake and a medal designed by Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz...
...lenses that reveal an athlete's face in stunning closeup, the moment of truth is seized; an Italian cyclist, narrowly losing one contest, bursts into tears; the barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain's winning, waddling roadwalker: "One cannot honestly...
...dormitories and given practicing hours off with pay. Barring upsets and injuries, Riccar will contribute 14 athletes to Japan's team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo this fall, and Hurdler Yoda stands the best chance of any Japanese athlete to win Japan's first postwar gold medal in track...
Also running under Harvard aegis was Erich W. Segal '58, former Hum 2 section man and now a resident tutor in Dunster House. His time was 2:56.30, which only three years ago would have won a medal. Segal runs this race every year...
Commander Samuel Francis du Pont helped set up the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845, and during the Civil War led the task force that took Port Royal, S.C., for the North. Artillery Major Henry Algernon du Pont got the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry in the Shenandoah Valley. Henry du Pont (1812-89) had a thing about fences; folks used to say that he would put up a $4,000 enclosure to fence in a $2,000 pasture. And then there was "Uncle Fred" (Alfred Victor du Pont II), who in 1893 was shot to death...