Word: medals
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Since the modern games were begun in 1900, American boats have brought home a gold medal 11 out of 14 times. The University of California has won three. Navy, Yale and Vesper B. C. have each won twice. Until recently, it had become almost a casual thing. An American victory in the eight-oared race was as expected as an American victory in the 400-meter run, or a U. S. sweep in the freestyle sprints...
...simple procedure. You merely selected the best college or club crew in the country one weekend, sent it to wherever the Olympic summer games were being held that year, and waited, as you would wait for a bottle of Coke from a machine, for a gold medal to come back. Most of the time...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced it will not award its $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal this year. No reason was given, but one academician, M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin, says that the group's literary committee recommended Ezra Pound, and that the governing council rejected him because of his anti-Semitic broadcasts for Italy during World War II. "Had you decided that Pound was an indifferent poet, and so deserved no prize," wrote Lettvin in his resignation, "then you would have no need to study his human failings. But you decided he was a good poet...
...truth is that ever since she published A Curtain of Green in 1941 she has been producing stories and novels of wonderful proportion and symmetry, written with a high sense of comedy, immense tenderness and no sentimentality at all. Their collective qualities this month won her the prestigious Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
...East German athlete like Pentathlon Star Burglinde Pollak beats a fellow East German or even a Communist brother in international competition, she receives the minimum bonus. The amount rises if she defeats a capitalist, and reaches a maximum if she conquers a West German. An Olympic Games gold medal, depending on the sport category, may earn an East German athlete between 20,000 and 50,000 marks ($6,250 to $15,600). One reward for Margitta Gummel, who won the women's shotput event in Mexico, was a $5,600 red Wartburg automobile. . It came complete with a license...