Word: champion
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jimmy Ellis takes on Oscar Bonavena in a semifinal round of the elimination tournament to find a heavyweight champion to replace Cassius ("Muhammad Ali") Clay. Live from Lexington...
Died. Tara Singh, 82, crusty champion of religious and political rights for India's 8,000,000 Sikhs; of a heart attack; in Chandigarh, India. Militant leader of the fiercely proud Sikhs since the early 1930s, Singh stirred up many a political fracas, was jailed by both the British and Nehru as he fought and fasted for the creation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state. The partition of the Punjab state in 1966 failed to satisfy the white-bearded leader who then went to jail for the last time still clamoring for independence...
...years, the Crimson wrestlers finished a strong second to perennial champion Cornell in the final season standings. Last year, the Crimson finished a strong second again--only to Princeton. Harvard's wrestlers pulled out a wild, 20-14 victory over the Big Red--its first such victory in Coach Bob Pickett's 18 years here--only to lose to the Tigers, 17-14, in an even wilder meet. Princeton went on to beat Cornell too and capture the Ivy title...
Pearl has help of a high order-an exuberant cast of dancers that prances up a tropical storm with Gower Champion's expert choreography. Cab Calloway is first-rate as the well-heeled hay and feed man for whom Dolly Levi sets her ostrich plumes; the only pity is that he has so little...
...team in the nation against No. 3 (or No. 4, depending on the poll). Passer Gary Beban against Runner O. J. Simpson. At stake: the Pacific Eight title, a Rose Bowl bid and the Heisman Trophy. "Whichever team wins this game should be the national champion," insisted Southern Cal Coach John McKay. After what happened last Saturday-U.C.L.A.'s Beban passing for two T.D.s, U.S.C.'s Simpson running for two, Southern Cal winning by the slim margin of a missed extra point, 21-20-few experts disagreed with McKay's judgment...