Word: champion
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Even Arthur Vandenberg, staunchest champion of a bipartisan foreign policy, was not committed to ERP in its entirety. This week the President agreed to one Vandenberg suggestion: the Administration bill would be modified by eliminating the $17 billion, four-year target figure. Instead it would simply have a clause approving the four-year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval...
...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...match of the meet was billed as Harvard captain Pete Fuller vs, Eastern champion Hauk O'Shsughnessy; but apparently the six-feet-five Columbia heavyweight, although still in college, is not wrestling. The tentative lineup lists 200-pound John Becauakaa as Fuller's likely opponent...
...been promised a return bout with Champion Williams, but last week Bob Montgomery thought better of it. At 28 he hung up his boxing gloves-for good, he said. He added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...
...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...