Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kraft is an old hand at local politics. Among his earliest memories as a child in Republican Noblesville, Ind., are the thumping defeats suffered by his Democratic relatives in campaigns for local of fice. After majoring in government at Dartmouth ('63) and spending two years in the Peace Corps...
Such statistics are impressive, but they merely reinforce the most significant aspect of the explosive growth of women's sport: the new, refreshingly unapologetic pride of the female athlete. Atlanta's Carolyn Luesing, 36 and the mother of two, has been running seriously since 1973, and the sport has become...
One thing is certain: women have only just begun to achieve their athletic potential. Since women started to play the game later than men, they have some catching up to do -and they are. Men now run the 800 and 1,500 meters only about 10% faster than women; in...
In West Germany, home of the defending World Cup champions, one of the most popular songs on the hit parade is a ditty called Buenos Días, Argentina. It features the 22 members of the German national team themselves, and despite the fact that it is, well, awful, the...
In addition to his poetry, Brutus was banned, jailed and finally exiled because he led the struggle to keep South Africa's all-white teams out of the Olympics. Most recently, he organized the demonstrations against South Africa's participation in the Davis Cup tournaments at Vanderbilt University.