Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Bundy and the rest of the Administration intellectuals have come out to discuss the war more openly, the public has a chance to evaluate the soundness of the escalation policy and the men who champion it. We are pleased to have played a small part in smoking them...
Somebody once asked Jack Sharkey which of the two men was the greatest heavyweight champion since he had fought them both. Said Sharkey: "Jack Dempsey. If you put him and Joe Louis in a telephone booth to settle it, the guy who'd come out would be Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan...
...three months, suffered 29 "disabling" injuries -meaning that each was bad enough to put the injured party on the bench or in a hospital. Centerfielder Willie Davis, who batted .294 and stole 42 bases last year, has a rib separation; Leftfielder Tommy Davis, the National League's batting champion in 1962 and 1963, has already missed eight weeks with a broken ankle...
...jack: he shot a 78 in the first round. He sank one decent putt all day, and he only managed that because "the cup got in the way of the ball." Nicklaus had plenty of company. Unable to grip his clubs properly because of a circulatory ailment, Defending Champion Ken Venturi staggered in with an 81; Arnold Palmer, who also had a 67 in practice, got his figures reversed with a 76. Three pros finished in the 90s-"How am I ever going to explain this to the members at my club?" gulped one-and two more picked...
Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House in Chicago, and president of the National Women's Peace Party, urged at her March 9 lecture on "International Peace" that the United States be "the champion of mediation without armistice...