Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Contender," Part 1. Former Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson guest-stars as a boxing-syndicate henchman who is kayoed by the impossible missions force...
Right Free Country. For countries that need immigrants, the swarms of Czechoslovak professionals and skilled technicians at loose ends provided a field day. Australian recruiters happily chartered three jetliners to bring hundreds of refugees to Sydney, including doctors, engineers, dentists, university professors, graphic designers and High Diving Champion Stefan Hanny. "These people could make an immeasurable contribution to Australia's progress if they can be allowed to practice their professions," said Immigration Minister Billy Snedden. Canada frantically increased its three-man immigration department in Vienna to 20, has already granted resident visas to almost 2,000 persons-including Marcella...
...junior javelin-champion-turned-quarcerback tossed perfect spiralling strikes, and the sophomore sensation, who broke the freshman scoring record for last year, caught six of them, two for touchdowns. Champi ran one across himself before relinquishing the quarterbacking duties to Dave Smith in the second half of the game...
...spotty 8-3 opening victory over Tufts, the Harvard soccer team goes to Storrs today to battle a potentially potent University of Connecticut team. UConn is generally in the thick of the fight for an NCAA bid, and, off a narrow loss to last year's New England champion, Vermont, figures to be solid again...
...religious preaching got him arrested nine times, and unruly mobs hounded him with taunts of "Worm!", "Imperialist!" and "CIA agent!" No wonder Gerardo Gonzalez, 42, decided that it was time to leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known God's Word, I would have...