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Word: championing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities are intertwined and obviously will become more so. In the Apollo program, NASA defined the mission, planned the flights and recruited astronauts; M.I.T. contributed to the design of the navigation system, North American Rockwell Corporation built the vehicle, and Pan American services the Cape Kennedy base. George Champion, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes that if private business addressed itself to satisfying the education and housing needs of the poor it could not only improve their lot but also find it profitable. As the New Left is quick to point out, the military relies on the universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What is holding us back? | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...shaking Kennedy's hand at the moment he was shot and was the first to grab Sirhan. He had described the shooting to the grand jury as "very deliberate." Two of Kennedy's companions, former L.A. Ram Lineman Roosevelt Grier, who wrestled with Sirhan, and Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, who knocked the pistol from his grasp, should be on hand, as well as Author George Plimpton, who also joined in the fray. When the time comes for them to recall their movements, the prosecution will produce a scale model of the pantry, with warming tables, tray stackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Behind Steel Doors | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...land of Michelangelo, Garibaldi and the Medicis there reigns a vast and unusual variety of contemporary heroes. The Italians idolize Grand Prix drivers, artists, novelists and occasionally Sicilian banditti. They fall barely short of adoring Nino Benvenuti, the boxing champion. They lavish attention on their celebrated movie directors-Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini. And who, of course, could overlook Gina or Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A SOCIETY TRANSFORMED BY INDUSTRY | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...scoring champion...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: A Mind-Bender for the Weight-Lifters | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...heavyweight champion of the world if you live in Boston? In San Francisco? If you read Riag Magazine...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: A Mind-Bender for the Weight-Lifters | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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