Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. A formidable biography that disassembles Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay and then carefully spreads the many pieces on the gym floor...
...Mary Martin and Robert Preston co-host the Antoinette Perry Awards, Broadway's most glamorous tribute to the best shows and performers of the season. On hand to pass out the laurels: Lauren Bacall, Harry Belafonte, Kirk Douglas, John Forsythe, Marge and Gower Champion, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury...
...George Hamilton, 27, was reclassified 1-A and said, "I will go whenever and wherever my country sends me"; Stoke I y Carmichael, 25, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was reclassified 4-F, saving him the trouble of keeping his promise not to serve if called; Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay, 25, his appeals exhausted, was ordered to report for induction on April 11, and said he'd rather die first...
...Plywood-Champion Pa pers, Inc., the manufacturers formed their own mortgage-finance company and announced its intention to offer 10%-down-payment loans without Government backing to buyers of homes priced as high as $40,000 or occasionally more. "There's an overwhelming need for this sort of thing," said Plywood-Champion President Gene C. Brewer. "Because of its fragmented nature, the industry is being manipulated at the will of agencies beyond its control-or even its advice. The time has come to help not only ourselves but our customers...
Home Capital starts with a modest nest egg of $2,000,000 put up by Plywood-Champion, Andersen Corp., Armstrong Cork, Kaiser Industries, Masonite and Reynolds Metals. By borrowing as much as twelve times that amount from banks and other sources of capital-much as consumer-and auto-finance concerns do-Home Capital expects to be able to make loans on some 7,000 homes within 18 months. The money will go primarily to buyers of new, one-family homes through mortgage bankers across the U.S. With more capital and borrowing, Home Capital aims at financing 100,000 homes...