Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best varsity contest might be in the high dive where Harvard's Danny Mahoney faces Dartmouth's Bill Hobson. Mahoney is trying out a new list of high-point-value dives, and Hobson, who beat Cornell's champion Dave Hawk last week, could give him trouble...
...Many have names that carry family echoes of one kind or another; in addition to Bobby Kennedy joining his brother Ted, they ranged from Maryland's Democratic Senator Joe Tydings, stepson of the late Millard Tydings, to California's Representative John Tunney, son of the former heavyweight champion. Many were symbols of political upheaval: a Democratic Congressman from Maine who won by 40,000 votes, a Republican from Mississippi who won by nearly 7,000, and a Democrat from New York's suburban Westchester County, the first of his party elected there in over 50 years. There...
Since coming to Washington, Keppel has gone to Capitol Hill 17 times to testify before committees of the 88th Congress, which enacted 14 major education bills, providing federal money for student loans, vocational training, construction of university facilities, etc. An urbane, persuasive champion of higher educational standards, Keppel gave 101 speeches to groups as varied as the National Symphony Orchestra Association, the United Jewish Appeal and the Chamber of Commerce. (To keep him from furiously racing through speeches, his assistant, John Naisbitt, writes on each page, "Slow down...
Martin King hears "the clock of destiny ticking out," recognizes his own historical moment, breathes confidence in his ultimate triumph. Never does he place himself on the defensive, acknowledge that there are those who see him standing in the doorway he himself has opened, and old champion become an obstruction. Those who, while he stands solidifying old gains, want to push through the doorway and move...
...League schools were barred from bowl games in any event by the agreement that set up the league. Yale's swimming team and Harvard's track team, however, would field strong entries in their respective NCAA championships, and the Ivy League champion normally plays in the NCAA basketball tournament...