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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...athletes at last month's Olympic Games. The final medal standings at the Mexico City games showed the U.S. with 45 gold, 28 silver and 34 bronze for a total of 107, compared with Russia's 29 gold, 32 silver, 30 bronze and a total of 91. Track and field was an utter debacle for the Russians, who managed to win only three events while the U.S. was winning 15. Every bit as embarrassing was the performance of the Soviet basketball team, which had been favored to capture the gold medal and wound up instead with the bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: Passionless Games | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...dash), disconcerting agility and uncanny ability to catch a football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Winner Take All | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...lunched with students in the Eliot House dining hall several times, with guards sitting a few tables away. Agents keep track of his movements by means of walkie-talkies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Singapore P.M. Guarded | 11/19/1968 | See Source »

...Yale's helm, Brewster has guided the University one step further down this perilous course. For his boys, there will now be no more waiting in drab New Haven station for trainloads of weekend sex. They will no longer have to pace back and forth on the platform of Track 8, chewing their fingers and sweating in their pants. Instead, they will go blissfully about their daily business, because out of the blue sky of creation a Yale baby has been born...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man and Woman at Yale | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

Perennial track power Villanova is favored to successfully defend its IC4A crown. The Jumbos have lost key runners through graduation and the Olympics, but they have competent backup strength in Tom Donnelly, Chris Mason, and Dick Buerkle. Add a tradition of victory and coach Jumbo Elliott's ability to pull out the big ones, and Villanova has to be listed as the team to beat today...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Run For IC4A Crown Today | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

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