Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judging from the lad's hard-charging form at halfback, England's World Cup champion soccer team will have a good prospect in another dozen years. One day a week, Britain's Prince Andrew, 6, motors out from Buckingham Palace with his nanny and his detective to mix it up with some of the local stars at the public playground in Cale Street, Chelsea. Andrew tears around the blacktop like a pale Pelé, but he does seem to be more careful than his big brother. At Scotland's Gordonstoun School a couple of months...
Captain-elect Don Chiofaro was one of two players selected unanimously to the official All-Ivy League football team announced Sunday. In all, Harvard placed six players, second only to co-champion Dartmouth's seven, on the 24-man squad chosen by the eight League coaches...
Emotional Crossover. The longtime champion of these unhappy people is Berlin-born Dr. Harry Benjamin, 81, who swings his practice between Manhattan and San Francisco. It was he who coined the word transsexual, and his new book, The Transsexual Phenomenon (Julian Press; $8.50), is already the standard reference on the problem. It is of prime importance, says Dr. Benjamin, to define what a transsexual is not. He is not a hermaphrodite, to whom a cruel quirk of nature has given some of the organs of both sexes. He is not a pseudohermaphrodite, with the organs...
Advanced nations tend to rely more and more on activist government to enlarge their citizens' wellbeing. But the more government does for people the bigger government gets-and the smaller citizens feel. What champion can fight city hall, slash red tape and rescue the Little Guy from the insolence of Big Bureaucracy...
...team's strong showing adds encouragement to hope for an upset over defending league champion Army on Saturday...