Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were to follow this advice, the first stop would be a slope such as the near-by Blue Hills Ski Area in Milton, Mass. Complete with chairlift and snowmaking machine, the area's ski school is under the direction of Olympic Champion Penny Pitou and her husband Egon Zimmerman. Only 30 minutes from Boston via Routes 9 and 128 South, Blue Hills could be a convenient local practice slope as well as the first stop of a formal New England ski tour...
...investment it needs unless he makes a fair settlement soon. In private negotiations, he has proposed a deal that would give Peru the oil lands but allow the company to stay with a profitable operating contract-a compromise under which he would risk damage to his image as a champion of Peruvian nationalism...
Technique had bested the technicians. But watch out from now on. "For get the crashes," said Switzerland's two-time World Champion Franz Kapus. "When those Americans get themselves straightened out, they will definitely be the fastest in the world...
Died. Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, 85. Archbishop of Lyons, early advocate of ecumenism, champion of French worker-priests, and central figure in French Agnostic Edouard Herriot's 1957 deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism; of a heart attack; in Lyons...
...Pakistan's Mohibullah Khan, 26: the U.S. Open Squash Racquets championship for the second year in a row, beating his cousin and former champion, Hashim Khan, 15-11, 15-10, 15-9; in Wilmington, Del. The Khans-and there are a dozen squash players in the family-have won the U.S. Open in nine of the last ten years...