Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie set for The Bells of St. Mary's. In fact, they are fourth-to eighth-graders at St. Helen's, a small Roman Catholic parochial school in Newbury, Ohio. For the past three years, Father James J. Moran, 65, a former Notre Dame boxing champ, has made unicycling a requirement for passing phys ed at St. Helen's. Though he bought the first cycle on a lark, Moran soon decided that the gadgets are dandy exercise machines as well as preparation for an even greater balancing act. "Kids today have to learn that life is full...
...granite block of a man who had never been knocked out while winning 46 of 54 fights. He is so crude he can make the classiest opponents look bad. Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier found out the hard way: in the process of winning two decisions from Oscar, the champ was flattened twice and had to suffer through 25 punishing rounds. Now it was Ali's turn. He was still fresh from a swift third-round T.K.O. and he needed a real tune-up before his own bout with Frazier...
Last Is First. Wally Hickel. Golden Gloves champ in Kansas, self-made millionaire and first Republican Governor of Alaska, came to Washington with the reputation of a truculent and provincial booster, about as salubrious as an enzyme detergent. Conservationists winced at what became known as "Hickelisms." There is not much point, he said then, in "conservation for conservation's sake." Or: "If you set water pollution standards too high, you might hinder industrial development." When he became the last member of the Cabinet to gain confirmation, Nixon said heartily: "The last shall be first as far as this Administration...
...Champ Clark Essay, "Mystique of Pro Football" [Nov. 9], was excellent. There is the "disciplined machinery of its teamwork: eleven men performing eleven separate actions in pursuit of a common goal." And therein lies something worth probing...
...than any of his peers. He still must prove that he belongs with the heavyweights he will find there, but even his critics must concede that he hit hard enough in the general election to deserve the chance. Confounding every pollster and prognosticator, he ran ahead of the California champ, Ronald Reagan, drawing 54% of the vote to Reagan...