Word: olympiade
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...display whirling the 1982 model, known as the Peppermint Hula Hoop, because it bears barber-pole stripes and is peppermint scented. In coming weeks the hoop will be featured in an episode of the television comedy-adventure The Dukes of Hazzard, and paraded in Daytona Beach, Fla., at an olympiad of hoop-based sporting events during the spring break for college students...
...former teammates may bump heads against in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Barnes was a consolation finalist at the 1980 Olympic Trials and said he plans to spend next fall training for a shot at the 23rd 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...