Word: medals
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Midst laurels stood: Hyman Rickover, 64, awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" as the Navy's atomic top kick; Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill, 66, given the annual $1,000 Fiorina Lasker Civil Liberties Award for "cour age and integrity in defense of civil liberties"; NBC-TV Newsman David Brinkley, 43, presented with the 1964 Golden Key Award at a convention of the American Association of School Administrators for significant contribution to the national welfare...
...could call it. "Now, that is something on which I expect you are already well informed," smiled saucy, blonde Lidia Skoblikova, 24, when a reporter boldly inquired after her vital statistics. The No. 1 star of this or any other Olympics, Speed Skater Skoblikova picked up her fourth gold medal of the games last week in the women's 3,000 meters and posed gaily for photographers with all four strung around her neck...
...himself bodily across the finish line-and slid headfirst into a snowbank. Claudia Boyarskikh, 24, a sturdy Siberian schoolteacher, led a 1-2-3 sweep in the grueling women's 10,000-meter cross-country ski race, also won the 5,000 meters, collected still a third gold medal as anchor woman on the victorious 15-kilometer relay team. Vladimir Melanin, described as "a 30-year-old student," coolly plinked 20 straight bull's-eyes (at ranges up to 273 yds.) to win the biathlon-an oddly militaristic combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship. Skating with...
Sitting Down. By week's end the Russians had amassed eleven gold, eight silver and six bronze medals-for a grand total of 25, almost twice as many as anybody else. The Russians' one king size disappointment was the men's 500-meter speed-skating sprint. On form, the race figured to be a breeze for Evgeny Grishin, 32, the world champion, the world record holder (at 39.5 sec.), the Olympic record holder (at 40.2 sec.), a double gold-medal winner at Cortina in 1956 and again at Squaw Valley in 1960. But accidents will happen...
...machines. He collects jazz records, lives in a two-room basement apartment jammed with fur pelts, tribal masks and African sculpture ("the Congo Hilton," he calls it). "Now I'm going to see what life is really all about," he says. But first there is that Olympic gold medal he intends to win next fall in Tokyo. "It's between me and that bar," says Thomas, "and I'm not out to satisfy anybody but myself...