Word: valeri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After circling the earth for a record 175 days in their Salyut 6 spacelab, Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov, 38, and Valeri Ryumin, 40, last week landed safely on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan. Unaccustomed to earthly gravity, they quickly settled into reclining chairs, posed cheerfully with a bouquet of gladioli and gamely fielded questions of Soviet journalists. Admitted Ryumin: "It's hard to get the tongue around words." But after a night on down-filled mattresses, the new Heroes of the Soviet Union seemed chipper enough to risk a dip in a hotel pool (outfitted with safety netting...
...Leonard, Jamaica's Don Quarrie and a U.S. surprise, Harvey Glance, 19, a diminutive (5 ft. 7 in.) Auburn University freshman who has never competed internationally. Says Glance of his Olympic chances: "I take pressure well." So does a fourth big figure in the field, Russia's Valeri Borzov, 26, the '72 gold medal winner who has recovered from a spring leg injury. He might be worth, well, a glance...
...Davydov, second secretary at the embassy; Victor F. Isakov, counselor; Vladimir A. Vikoulov, attache; Vadim Kuznetsov, an embassy official; Stanislov Kondrahov, an Izvestia reporter; Ikav Zavrazhnov and Alexander Kokorev, both embassy secretaries; Andre Kokoshin, librarian; Anotole Kotov, attache; and Embassy Officials Alexander Ereskovsky, Vladimir Trifonof, Alexander Rozanov and Valeri Ivanov...
...Russians as usual came away with the lion's share of the winter medals. They picked up a host of prizes in speed skating, where Evgeni Kulikov, 25, and Valeri Muratov, 29, finished one-two in the 500. The Russian hockey machine, as expected, finished first...
...Penalty. The game was marred by an incident that did little to enhance detente-the professed goal of the Superseries. In the first period, Flyer Defenseman Ed Van Impe decked the Soviets' Valeri Kharlamov, and Soviet Coach Konstantin Loktev retaliated by taking his team to the locker room when no penalty was levied against Van Impe...