Word: champion
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HOLIDAY ON ICE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A color special from the Palais du Sport in Paris featuring several world champion skaters, a skating chimpanzee, and Maïtre des Cèrèmonies Milton de Berle...
Jack Javits is New York's champion vote-getter of either party. He has won seven consecutive elections-four for the House, one for the office of state attorney-general and two for the U.S. Senate-beating his last opponent, James B. Donovan, with a plurality of nearly a million votes in 1962. He even carried overwhelmingly Democratic New York City in that year, although Dwight Eisenhower had lost there by 62,000 votes...
...There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch anti-Nazi in wartime and a champion of Israel since then. "If good will is not recognized," he gravely told guests at Eshkol's home, "then no good can be created...
Last year McDowell finally went to Cleveland to stay. It was a bad year for the Indians: the team to beat in the American League was supposed to be the defending champion New York Yankees, and the Indians did that all right-they wound up fifth while the Yankees finished sixth. But McDowell established himself as the American League's top pitcher, winning 17 games against eleven losses, posting an earned-run average of 2.18, striking out 325 batters in 273 innings-more per inning than the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax...
Fair guess-considering that Blake's favored Canadiens trailed the ragtag Red Wings 2-0 after the first two games of the best-of-seven playoffs. The Canadiens were the defending Stanley Cup champions. They had won the regular-season National Hockey League championship (Detroit finished fourth), and they had wiped up the ice with the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 in the playoff semifinals. By comparison, the main thing the Red Wings had going for them was Gordie Howe, the alltime scoring champion (with 624 goals) of the N.H.L. But Gordie was 37 and slowing down; eleven other...