Word: medals
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Along with the squash, hockey, and track teams, two Harvard distance runners helped to make last week-end one of the most successful athletic ventures of the winter season. In Washington D.C. Erich Segal's 12th place finish in a nationwide marathon won him a National A.A.U. medal. Segal is a teaching fellow in general education...
...liked military brass since, and is appalled by the way the world is again accepting "as reasonable and respectable the utterances and actions of these people," apparently drawing little distinction between Fascist and any other kind of general. His painting runs largely to poking fun at stuffed shirts in medal-festooned tunics...
...regard pole vaulting as his speciality. The son of a Formosan farmer, he came to the U.S. to study track and field five years ago, learned so fast that he ranks as one of the world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls the javelin...
Parker, 28, rowed for three years on the University of Pennsylvania varsity. He took up sculling after graduating in 1957 and won the national single sculls championship and a gold medal in the Pan-American Games in 1959. He repeated as national champion in 1960 and went on to represent the United States in the Rome Olympics...
...elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1930 and received the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters...