Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANADIAN OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). (Concluding on Sunday, same time.) The five finishing holes of the last two days of the $125,000 Canadian Open Golf Tournament, at the St. George Golf and Country Club, Toronto. Defending champion is Billy Casper...
...Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion...
What happened was that this guy they call El Cordobés, who is the bullfighting champion of Spain, sort of a Sugar Ray Robinson-type with flashy clothes and cars and goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull...
...Eucker and Eddy Minasian, grappled with the assassin, but could not reach his gun hand. Author George Plimpton and Kennedy Aide Jack Gallivan joined the wrestling match. The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets, and found five other human targets. Eight men in all, including Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion, and Roosevelt Grier, a 300-Ib. Los Angeles Rams football lineman, attempted to overpower the slight but lithe assailant...
...difficult to tell exactly who will be strong in Mexico City during the October games. But Harvard Heavyweight Coach Harry Parker expects West Germany's Ratzeburg Boat Club, famous for its extremely high stroking cadence to be dangerous, along with last sumer's international champion from New Zealand. Parker also rated East Germany and Russia as very tough...