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...final round at Seattle, the bridge team headed by B. Jay Becker rallied strongly to overtake Charles Goren's team and win the Vanderbilt Cup, one of the most prized trophies in U.S. contract bridge, earned the right to represent the U.S. in the 1960 World Bridge Olympiad in Rome...
...cocker spaniels, everyone knew, was Janet Gray's hobby. She filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent...
...Though the Russians fared worse than expected in the major track and field events (they good-naturedly gave Americans and others some of the two dozen victory cakes they had ordered on arrival), they scored points in almost everything they tried, and made the Games of the XVI Olympiad a lively, if unofficial, competition between the world's two chief competitors. The roaring stadium crowd of 100,000 was treated to a daily succession of sensational performances. Some of them...
...spectacle of 4,500 athletes from 68 countries marching in bright parade to begin the games of the "XVI Olympiad of the modern era" in Melbourne's Olympic stadium could not erase international frictions and political embarrassments. But the worldwide contest of men against men, against time and against records, was under way despite wars and tensions. Competitors who had traveled half around the world to test their grace and strength and speed and skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis...
...emphasis in this Olympiad by both Russians and Americans has been on the national team, rather than the individual. Unfortunately, this has become normal procedure for the Olympics. In the case of the Russians' state-supported team, this attitude has been fairly obvious. But a similar feeling on the part of the Americans has been mainfested in such statements as "We are going to surprise them here and win more gold medals than we did at Helsinki" by J. Lyman Bingham, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee...