Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event has been stag night for the competitors. But last week Millrose officials saw fit to schedule a special 60-yd. dash for the ladies. The reason: to give the New York track crowd its first look at Tennessee State's willowy Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph. 20. triple gold medal winner and the outstanding athlete at last summer's Olympic Games in Rome...
...like what I'm doing just fine." Last year at the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, he was considered a strong contender for the slalom but was off form, finishing sixth; in the downhill race, won by Teammate Jean Vuarnet, he did better, winning a bronze medal. One of his problems seemed to be his mental attitude. Admitting that he is "often obsessed by a fear of falling," Périllat grew too tense during "that horrible moment five minutes before the start of a race, when you think that every breath will be your last." But no longer...
...points with his graceful form, he wins mainly because he can fly farther down the slope than anyone else, much to the delight of the crowds of up to 135,000 that turn out to watch Europe's venturesome jumpers. Last February, Recknagel flew off with the gold medal in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley with one jump of 306 ft. This season, showing the brand of toughness the Finns call sisu, Recknagel has won central Europe's toughest title with a gigantic jump of 323 ft. at Bischofshofen, Austria, in addition has taken a flock...
...times). At Yale, where he studied medicine to prepare himself to be a physical education director, he broke the world's record for pole vaulting (12 ft., 7¾ in., v. the present outdoor record of 15 ft., 9¼ in.), went on to win a gold medal at the 1908 Olympic games...
Eight years after Navy brass tried to push him into premature retirement, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the atomic submarine, was summoned to the deck of the Nautilus, his first nuclear offspring, to receive the Distinguished Service Medal, highest peacetime award in the Navy's gift. In the six years since Nautilus was commissioned, Rickover's atomic family has grown fast: last week's medal-pinning ceremony was coupled with the keel laying of the Lafayette, 34th ship in the nation's awesomely lethal nuclear underseas fleet...