Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Charles Munch, 77, famed conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra with elegance and éclat from 1949 until 1962; of a heart attack; while on concert tour; in Richmond, Va. In the 1930s, Munch was the toast of Paris, where he was known as le beau Charles. Summoned to Boston to replace the old autocrat Serge Koussevitzky, the stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch...
Died. Charley Goldman, 81, rugged little (5 ft. 1 in.. 115 Ibs.) prizefight trainer who, in half a century, schooled hundreds of boxers, including Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers and Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket...
Died. Chauncey Sparks, 84, wartime Governor of Alabama, who started a former Army Air Corps sergeant named George C. Wallace on a new career in 1946 by giving him a $175-a-month assistant attorney general's job; of a heart attack; in Eufaula...
...reason for Wall Street's favorable reaction to the Nixon victory is its expectation that the new Administration will reduce governmental control over business. After Nixon's controversial campaign attack on "the heavy-handed bureaucratic regulatory schemes" of the Johnson Administration, for example, many Wall Streeters consider the President-elect virtually duty-bound to replace Manuel Cohen, the activist chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, with somebody more acceptable to the securities industry...
...game of 1909 was not destined to be a breakthrough for modern football. Both teams relied on their rushing attack and on their rock-solid defenses...