Word: tracked
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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...
...since Cortes gave Guatemozin a hotfoot in an effort to make him reveal where the Aztecs kept their gold has Mexico been invaded by such a determined band of treasure hunters as the U.S. Olympic team. "The greatest competitive Olympics in history," as U.S. Track Coach Payton Jordan called them, proved to be a showcase for the multifarious talents of an inspired U.S. squad bent on cornering all the gold in Mexico City-and the silver and bronze as well. The medal score told the story: by week's end, with only a handful of events still...
...profoundly conservative country." The conservative majority is usually apathetic in national politics, he wrote, but when "presented... with definitions of American life sharply at odds with their own," conservatives undertake "symbolic crusades to extirpate the strange and the stranger and to set the country back on the right track...
...saddest thing about the ruckus raised by Tommie Smith and John Carlos was that it dulled the lustre of a superlative track and field meet in which the U.S. once again demonstrated that it is the world's best. The Star-Spangled Banner was played so often that it began to sound like The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...monologues are only passingly humorous. But, seemingly coming from the very mouths of his characters, they take on a kind of ear-twitching incongruity that can make every utterance hilarious. On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Frye convulsed the audience by dubbing mixed-up voices onto the sound track of various film clips: one moment, Lyndon Johnson was on the screen speaking in the gravelly voice of Nelson Rockefeller; the next, Humphrey was speechifying in the rumbling tones of Everett Dirksen...