Word: olympiad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whizzes show that they know the score in math olympiad...
...upon Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., last week might have impressed even Pythagoras. The world's best and brightest high school math students, they had come from 27 countries, including the U.S., U.S.S.R., Britain, France, Canada and Hungary (but not China), to compete in the 1981 International Mathematical Olympiad...
...brainy battle of wits began in the East bloc, where youthful talent in mathematics is cultivated as lovingly as it is in sports, chess and the ballet. Rumania won the first olympiad in 1959, although the Soviets have been the best performers since then, taking a total of nine golds in what has usually been, in spite of its name, an annual event. The U.S., uneasy about going up against the fearsome East Europeans, did not enter until 1974. But the Yanks have done surprisingly well. They came in second on their first try, then...
...male U.S. contingent, ranging in age from 14 to 18, was selected in a rigorous elimination that began with the Annual High School Mathematics Exams, a multiple-choice test given to more than 420,000 students last March. The top 150 finishers then went on to the U.S.A. Math Olympiad in May. The eight finalists, along with 15 other youths who hope to qualify in future years, spent four weeks at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. There they sharpened their skills with military-like drilling (reveille at 6:15 a.m., followed by seven hours of problem solving...
...question is, can a young Crimson team, playing without superscooper Rick Pearce and scrappy Bobby Kelley anchoring the infield and fast, rangy Charlie Santos-Buch ruling the outfield for the first time in an Olympiad, get mature enough fast enough to repeat as champs? The answer follows...