Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic competition, the decathlon most closely reflects the original Greek ideal of all-round athletic excellence. An entire track and field meet in miniature, its ten events in two days add up to the toughest individual test of speed, stamina, strength and spirit ever devised. The man who wins the Olympic decathlon well deserves to be known as the finest athlete in the world. That man last week was William Anthony Toomey, a 29-year-old schoolteacher from Santa Barbara, Calif., who not only captured the gold medal but set an Olympic record in the process...
Supernumerary Stars. Nowhere were the stunning strength and depth of the U.S. team more evident than in swim ming. Even the supernumeraries turned into stars. California's Mark Spitz, who had been favored to win as many as five gold medals, managed only two-both in relays-and finished dead last in his specialty, the 200-meter butterfly. Pennsylvania's Carl Robie did his job for him, beating Britain's Martyn Wood-roffe to the touch board by two yards...
...expects the Administration's policies to cool the U.S. economy soon, Economist Walter W. Heller last week recalled an old poker-room joke that, he said, he had heard from President Johnson. It has to do with a professional dealer who is getting an unexpected show of strength from one of the local yokels. "Reuben," says the shark, "you better play fair, because I know exactly what I dealt...
...sign of the trend's strength is the arrival in the U.S. of European bankers similar to the march of U.S. banks into Europe during the 1950s. Within the past year, British, German, Dutch and Belgian investment and commercial bankers have considerably expanded operations in New York-the better to serve the growing European encampment...
Yale lacks solid strength behind its leading trio. Seniors Carl Pierce and Steve Boyer have a chance for scoring positions today, but unless they can close the gap between themselves and Yahn, the Elis will be in trouble...