Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds do not favor Harvard. Brown, Ivy League champion for five consecutive years and New England champion for three consecutive years, has lost only one game this season. Again it was Penn which was the spoiler as the Quakers snapped the Bruins' 26-game winning streak in Ivy play. That was six weeks ago and they have resumed their winning ways, rolling over all their Ivy opponents...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the fight world that existed in the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality and ego energy as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
...ousted two-term Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark. A prosperous tile manufacturer and a Schwenkfelder-a member of one of Pennsylvania's "plain" sects-Schweiker, 42, does not smoke, rarely drinks, and then only wine. A self-styled moderate, he is an outspoken civil rights champion and an earnest advocate of draft reform...
...Every thoroughbred champion wor thy of the name ought to prove him self carrying weight," says Veteran Trainer Johnny Nerud. And by that measure there has never been a horse to equal Nerud's own Dr. Fager. At New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the four-year-old bay lugged...
...victory was Dr. Pager's 18th in 22 starts. It was also his last. After the race, Nerud, who owns 25% of the colt, announced that his champion would be retired to stud at Co-Owner William McKnight's Tartan Farms in Ocala...