Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respectable 2:20.2 in the 200-yard breaststroke. At his effort was only good enough for fifth place. Rick Forum of North Carolina won the event in 2:18.4. Corris and Bruce Fowler are the top two seeds in today's 100-yard breaststroke, in which Fowler is defending champion...
Some book. Titled Below the Surface: The Confessions of an Olympic Champion (William Morrow; $5), it has the splash of a poolside Peyton Place. "Olympic morals," Dawn confides, "are far more loose than any outsider would expect. There's material in the average Olympic Village for a thesis which might earn any budding Kinsey a Ph.D." Dawn should know. She's been going to the Olympics since 1956 -and taking notes, apparently, all the while...
...unanimous decision that 6,587 fans booed for 15 minutes. Said Joe Louis, who spent the evening suffering in Ernie's corner: "Terrell fought like an amateur." But try telling that to Terrell, who immediately started chattering about a fight with Clay. "I'm the champion," he insisted. "The W.B.A. says so." Hooted Cassius: "Why don't they just admit that I'm the king of kings...
Harvard's sensational Danny Mahoney upset defending champion Dave Hawk of Cornell last night to win the one-meter diving chmapionship in the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming tournament at Yale...
...Beard of Navy, who placed only third in the individual medley against Harvard in December, edged Yale's Ed Townsend to win the gruelling 400-yard individual in 4:26.9, breaking the old record held by John Pringle of Harvard. In the 500-yard freestyle, defending champion Harrison Merrill of North Carolina nosed out Princeton's Chris Brown to win in 4:58.1, also a new meet record...