Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard junior Bob Lea teamed up with Bill Knecht from Haddenfield, N.J., to win a gold medal in double sculls for the United States in the Pan-American games Sunday, in Sao Paulo, Brabil. Lea, when he's not off in Brazil, lives in Eliot House, but does not row for the Harvard varsity crews...
...medal should be struck off forthwith to honor Mapmaker Chapin's latest effort. His Malaysia map is a brilliant tour de force that deserves suitable recognition...
...Cassius threw away his round-trip plane ticket, borrowed money from a referee, and took a train home instead. The Olympics were out, he told Martin. No boat berths were available, and Clay would not fly. Martin sat him on a park bench, told him that the Olympic gold medal was his only chance to be wealthy and famous. "You'll have to gamble your life," he said. "Your whole future depends on this one plane ride to Rome. You'll have to gamble your life." Cassius agreed. It was a big gamble...
Fighting as a light heavyweight at 178 lbs., he knocked out a befuddled Belgian, flicked past a stolid Russian, an Australian and a Pole. "I didn't take that gold medal off for 48 hours," he says. "I even wore it to bed. I didn't sleep too good because I had to sleep on my back so the medal wouldn't cut me. But I didn't care. I was the Olympic champion...
...brought back any presents for his family. Cassius said no, so Reynolds told him to go out and get some. He picked out a $250 watch for his mother, a $100 watch for his father, a $100 watch for his brother. Still wearing his gold medal around his neck, Clay ate at the Waldorf-Astoria ("The steaks were $7.95." says Martin, "and Cassius always had two"), toured Greenwich Village looking for beatniks, and whooped delightedly when passers-by recognized him. Tapping a startled cabby on the shoulder, he said: "Why, I bet even you know that I'm Cassius...