Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitting His Peak. Counsilman's counsel paid off. "I think the guys on the team liked me right away," says Mark, "and they avoided talking about the Olympics." Mark moved into a dormitory with George Smith, another Olympian, pledged Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, earned A's for attitude as well as in his studies. "It was just a matter of growing up," says Counsilman. "College has given him the chance to mingle with contemporaries for the first time, and he has turned out to be one of the most popular guys on the team...
...Fists. Toynbee's Olympian tone almost makes palatable a set of contemporary prejudices that has become familiar enough from other writings. Among them: the U.S. is "trying to build up a colonial empire of the traditional kind"; Madison Avenue is an abomination; Israel and the U.S. are the only two powers left in the world that believe...
Munk's time of 1:56.8 broke the old mark held by Neville Hayes '67 by 0.6 seconds. Captain Martie Chalfie earned an additional two points for the Crimson with his eleventh-place finish. Princeton's Olympian Ross Wales was easily the winner in 1:53.7, while Paul Katz of Yale and Dave Pearl of Navy came in second and third...
...winner of the 500-free was, as expected, Olympian John Nelson of Yale. Nelson demonstrated his superiority by turning in a time of 4:46.4. Harvard's Powlison was tenth...
...Another Olympian, Dave Johnson, swam the 200-free in a quick 1:47.5 to nip Harvard's Dave Powlison, captured a second in the medley, and did a fast third leg in the final relay...