Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accomplished and courageous politician. He had been a superb trial attorney, so good that he had received glowing praise from Justice Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert on civil rights legislation-and a thorn in the side of his own party regulars...
Grievance & Isolation. All the same, few political campaigns in memory-with the possible exception of the Kennedys'-have produced quite so exotic a cast of supporters and swingers. Among the Lindsay helpers were Actor Henry Fonda, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres (a Puerto Rican), Singers Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli and Ethel Merman, Authors Norman Mailer and Paddy Chayefsky, Broadway Producers George Abbott and Hal Prince, ex-Baseball Star Jackie Robinson and Boxer Suear Ray Robin son, Comedienne Phyllis Diller and CORE Leader James Farmer...
Other municipal election results: > In Boston, Louise Day Hicks, 47, competitive, controversial chairman of the beleaguered Boston School Committee, again proved one of the city's alltime champion vote getters. Racking up 93,579 votes (64%), she swept into a third term along with four like-minded candidates, all of whom opposed bussing of pupils to achieve racial balance. An even greater blow to Boston's Negroes was the defeat of School Committee Member Arthur Gartland, the one board member who Negroes felt was sympathetic to their cause. - >In New Haven, Democratic Mayor Richard...
...Daugherty tells his players. "It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." In their collision with Ohio State last month, the Spartans held the Buckeyes to minus-22 yds. rushing-the first time they have ever failed to gain on the ground. Michigan, the defending Big Ten champion, got even less: minus-51 yds. Last week the Spartans allowed Iowa a grand total of 86 yds., 85 of them in the air, never let the Hawkeyes within 20 yds. of their goal line. That was enough to bring...
When he climbed into the ring against Canada's George Chuvalo last week, Ernie Terrell, 26, was under the impression-or delusion-that he was heavyweight champion of the world. The World Boxing Association, which is still sort of peeved at Cassius Clay, had told Ernie so last March. But the president of the W.B.A. is one James Deskin, who also happens to be executive secretary of the boxing commission in Las Vegas-where money talks and where Clay will fight Floyd Patterson Nov. 22. So there, before Terrell's wondering eyes at Toronto's Maple Leaf...