Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based on the 1951 play, The Fourposter, is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. While the musical is blessed in its stars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and in its director, Gower Champion, the book and score are blubber...
Freshman Larry Terrell, who last week succeeded Harvard's two-year title holder, Jose Gonzalas, as Junior National Champion, will play in the Freshman Intercollegiate tournament of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York. John Ince and Peter Abrams are also registered for that tournament, which was won two years ago by Rick Stern, now on the Harvard varsity team...
Though in both cases it required overtime goals, Cornell has also defeated Clarkson and the defending NCAA champion, Michigan State, by 3-2 scores. In its opener, the Big Red topped Yale, 5-3. Of these wins, only the triumph over the Larries, who later edged the Crimson, 3-2, was recorded on home...
...Indian champion cut down his errors and laced into Martin for the next two games, 15-8, 15-12. Quick victory for Nayar seemed inevitable, as Nayar sped away to a 12-8 lead in the fourth game...
...early reels, the other teams concentrate ruthlessly on eliminating Brazil, the defending champion, and the only way to do that is to eliminate Pele (pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared...