Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watson frequently reiterates this obsessive need to beat out Pauling. He furthermore creates the distinct impression that he and Francis Crick are scientifically inferior to Pauling--that they are fighting an uphill battle against an acknowledged champion. At one point, they realize that some problems in ionic bonding are crucial roadblocks to their attempt to solve the structure...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE. James Earl Jones, as Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion, roars through the role with jungle magnetism and the pride of a lion. Otherwise the semidocumentary succeeds only in easing the conscience without facing the tragedy of its story...
Armed with electric clippers, an ex -perienced sheep shearer can completely strip the wool from a sheep in three min utes. In Australia, where his specialty is a legendary profession as well as a sheer necessity, a champion shearer soon becomes something of a national hero...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE. James Earl Jones exudes enormous vitality as the tragic hero of Howard Sackler's play, which is based on the triumphs and trials of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion. The drama has the scope of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it as if it were a stampede; all decibels and no deftness...
...Making of a Champion," a film telling the story of Harvard's 1968 varsity crew, will be shown for the Harvard community in Mallinckrodt MB-9 at 5 p.m. Thursday...