Word: retton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them. While Soviet athletes frequently agree that they cannot be called amateurs, they contrast their salaries of a few hundred dollars a month and their state bonuses of up to $20,000 for winning even gold medals to the millions reaped by a Carl Lewis or a Mary Lou Retton. "I have no contract and cannot advertise my services for hire," notes Soviet Backstroker Sergei Zabolotnov, who earns $583 a month as a swimming- coach-in-training. The Soviets, too, mutter darkly about drugs, and with reason: some U.S. athletic officials suspect that abuse of steroids and their...
...unlikeliest 125 people one could imagine supping together: Henry Kissinger and Meadowlark Lemon, great Globetrotters both; Claudette Colbert and Moscow's supreme propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev; Ted Graber, Nancy's interior designer, and Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's noted American expert; Joe DiMaggio and Pearl Bailey; David Rockefeller, Mary Lou Retton and Saul Bellow...
...cereal is made in the shapes of things that taste good with milk--cookies and ice cream cones, for example. Should Coke become the chief breakfast drink, General Mills would have to introduce Blood-Shot-Eye-Bits, with four flavors of marshmallow rotted teeth thrown in Mary Lou Retton might have to dribble Coke on her face for the commercials...
...University of Texas and cheering for her football-player boyfriend this week at the annual Longhorns- Oklahoma Sooners game. Pretty quotidian for a girl whose spectacular flips and splits won her four perfect 10s and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, right? Not at all, said Mary Lou Retton, 18, as she announced her retirement from full-time gymnastics last week. She wants to "mix with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue...
Brumage decided to apply to Harvard because of the location and the name. "I just fell in love with the location," says Brumage, whose town's main claim to fame is having included Mary Lou Retton among its residents...