Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People's Champ was interrupted by laughter and applause. The crowd was now an audience...
...brief champ. The crowd applauded in agreement...
While Stoviak's strategy was working-he hit three putts-the rest of the Crimson was playing steady golf in the cold rain. Skip Barry and Andy Marks both had 80's. Skip Kistner had an 81 and Greater Boston champ Bill Salatich contributed...
...anything, the spin on their game was more political than ever. Before the tournament started, they successfully demanded that the Nationalist Chinese be excluded. Then their star, Chuang Tse-tung-whose fearsome forehand drive made him world men's singles champ from 1961 through 1965-forfeited his shot at regaining the title when he refused to play the contender from Cambodia. Finally, at tournament's end, the Chinese made an extraordinary gesture by inviting the American team to visit China this week...
...most of the 4,500 fans who thronged daily into the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, the results were a severe blow. Japan won only one title-in the women's team competition-for its worst showing since 1952. To compound the ignominy, the Japanese saw their 1969 world singles champ, Shigeo Ito, upset in the men's final by Sweden's Stellan Bengtsson, 18. Said a crestfallen spokesman for the Japanese delegation: "We simply have to have a sweeping reappraisal of our techniques...