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Some 40 champions from a bevy of sports were in the crowd of 400 that stood cheering in Los Angeles last week as genial, handsome U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, 23. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year for 1958, got to his feet to accept his award. In shy dignity, Johnson, California Negro who last July in Moscow scored an astounding 8,302 points to win a tense, ten-event duel with Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov, thanked his parents for "making it all possible," added quietly: "I have but one goal in life: to live like...
...YORK--Archie Moore, world light-heavyweight champion, Thursday night received the Edward J. Neil Award as fighter of the year...
Moore Wins Award...
Certainly, loyalty oaths or pledges of allegiance are out of place in a free society. But many universities receiving federal aid manage to survive despite them; Harvard, for example, will match a federal award for any deserving applicant who refuses to sign the oath. Not all schools, however, are as well-off as Harvard, and it is possible that funds could be unjustly withheld because of the loyalty oath requirement...
...award, which consists of a gold and silver medal and a stipend of $5000, was initiated in 1796 for the purpose of encouraging and honoring outstanding discoveries in the area of physics then known as "heat and light." Previous winners include Enrico Fermi, Edwin Langmuir, and Thomas Edison...