Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Status Symbols. Affluence and mobility have also changed the Spaniard's habits. He is no longer thrilled at the chance to stand in a freezing soccer stadium and cheer for the home team. Soccer attendance has slipped so badly that Real Madrid, European champion for five of the past ten years, has decided to tear down its cavernous Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and build a smaller one. Spaniards are turning to more expensive diversions and status symbols. Madrid now supports 19 legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman...
Wayne Andersen, defending Heptagonal sprint champion, started slow and finished slower in his qualifying heat in the 50-yard dash. Robinson and Andy Cahners both made it to the semis, but Robinson scratched because of his muscle pull, and Cahners found the going a little too fast. George Anderson of Southern University beat Morgan State's Ray Pollard and favorite Sam Perry of Fordham for the title...
Tonight the Crimson meets defending champion Princeton, and tomorrow the quintet faces their likely successor, Pennsylvania...
Wayne Anderson, the defending Heptagonal sprint champion, has been off his form so far this winter. He will team with Robinson and either Carter Lord or Andy Cahners in the 45-yard dash...
...currently fashionable minority groups. The most fashionable minority, of course, is the American Negro, and quite properly so, for Negroes suffer the greatest discrimination and deprivation in our society. Puerto Ricans and the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant residents of Appalachia are also -- again, quite properly -- fashionable groups to champion. (The best index of fashionability is probably the number of articles about the group in the New York Times Magazine.) Other groups, however, which suffer less discrimination and deprivation -- for example, ordinary working people of Irish, Italian, or Polish descent -- are generally excluded from any fashionable sympathy...