Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Houston have grown up with speed, a measure of batting power, a major-league efficiency on the field and, particularly, a confidence in themselves. The high-powered San Francisco Giants have beaten them in 8 out of 12 games this year. But the Astros have beaten the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in seven out of eleven games. Just wait till next year...
Died. Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, 59, Italian auto racer who in 1950 was the first driver to be named World Grand Prix champion, but is almost as well remembered for surviving countless accidents, including one grisly debacle in Argentina in 1953, when he swerved to avoid a wandering child only to cut down five people in the crowd; of injuries following the crash of his Ford-Cortina-Lotus while pleasure-driving in the French Alps near Chamb...
They might have missed something. Three times a national champion, Seattle's Ron Musson, 38, was doing an estimated 170 m.p.h. in his rear-engined, $250,000 Miss Bardahl when he flashed past the judges' stand on the second lap of the regatta's second heat. In full view of 20,000 horrified spectators, Miss Bardahl clipped something in the water, sheared off a propeller blade, shot straight up into the air, fell back, and disintegrated. Less than three hours later, in the final heat, Don Wilson, 34, in Miss Budweiser and Rex Manchester, 39, in Notre...
Died. Hermann Scherchen, 74, Berlin-born conductor known as an indefatigable champion of modern composers, introducing works by Schoenberg and Hindemith when they were unknowns, who scorned U.S. orchestras as timid traditionalists, rejecting invitations for 35 years until 1964, when his five-part concert in Manhattan proved stunningly worth waiting for; of a heart attack; in Florence...
Gardner was appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare last year. Now on leave as President of both the Carneigie Corporation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Gardner was cited as "an informed and articulate champion of education." Last summer, he was chairman of the White House Conference on Education...