Word: champ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salaun, five-time former U.S. Amateur squash champion, whipped Niedorhoffer 15-1, 15-12, 15-8 in a semifinal match, and went on to trip current amateur champ Ben Hecksher in the finals...
...feel like a champ," said onetime University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts, after an Atlanta jury awarded him $3,060,000. He had reason: it was one of the biggest libel judgments in U.S. legal history (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week in Atlanta, the same federal district judge who presided over Butts's suit against the Saturday Evening Post pared the judgment to something less than championship size. Holding that the original award was "grossly excessive," Judge Lewis R. Morgan ordered it reduced...
Mohibulla started slowly, whacking backhands into the tin as Hashim, three-time U.S. Open champ ran out the first two games. 15-10 and 15-12. But his shots warmed up in the third games forehands whizzed down the walls and into corners and nicks as if they had eyes. The younger man took the third game 15-13 and the fourth...
...changing mood and status of the Negro in America. The story was written by Jesse Birnbaum, who wrote our earlier cover story on James Baldwin and many of our reports on the Negro situation in recent months. It was edited by Marsh Clark's older brother, Champ Clark, who wrote our first Martin Luther King cover story back during the Montgomery troubles...
...final, the Crimson captain wore down his older opponent and led by 12-6 in the fourth game when Conlon came to life. The 1951 national champ swept 11 straight points and moved to a 9-6 lead in the final game before Niederhoffer took control once again...