Word: pentathlon
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...team won the silver medal in the curiously militaristic modern pentathlon (riding, fencing, shooting, swimming, cross-country running), edging out Hungary's defending Olympic champions. Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a theology student, shot his way to the 300-meter three-position free rifle title, with a world-record score of 1,153 points; two other marksmen gave the U.S. second and third in small bore-rifle prone-position competition. In 1960, the best Yankee yachtsmen could manage was one gold medal, one bronze. Last week, with four out of seven races completed, the U.S. was leading...
Saturday, September 19 SUMMER OLYMPIC TRIALS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Canoeing and the modern pentathlon plus a look at the U.S. Olympic team...
...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Finals of the ten-day "World Series" of bowling from Dallas. Also the world pentathlon championship from Berne, Switzerland...
...squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As McCone claimed, he had all the credentials for the nuclear job: he was deputy chief of staff for Joint Task Force 7, which tested at Eniwetok after World War II, helped to organize SHAPE, and later spent six years as the top military...