Word: olympicsized
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Swimming captain Dave Brumwell said yesterday. "I'm all washed up" and that he does not intend to go the Olympic route. Radcliffe Captain Nancy Sato is however considering staying around and doing some serious diving with the Olympics in mind. Sato finished 20th in the nationals this winter.
There is none of Ambler's brilliant seediness in the new breed of wild Eastern suspense books. Plots and characters of a dozen or more titles all derive from the same headlines - during the fall of 1972 - when Black September terrorists murdered 1 1 Israeli athletes at the Munich...
Died. Avery Brundage, 87, president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72); of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A 1912 U.S. Olympic track competitor and later self-made millionaire in construction, Brundage became the most powerful figure in international amateur sport as head of the I.O.C. Viewing the...
"My sister is the real spark plug of the family," cracked Ted Kennedy after Eunice Shriver had assembled a crowd of 1,350 at Washington's Kennedy Center. Eunice's guests had come to see some song and dance by Barbra Streisand and James Caan, stars of the...
Ever since it acted as host to the 1968 Winter Olympics, the city of Grenoble (pop.: 380,000) has been trying to improve itself even more, becoming France's laboratory for urban planning. Now, in an ambitious move that is being watched by urban planners everywhere, the city is...