Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything, Everett Dirksen's performance in the Senate last week was entirely too improbable to have been sinister. Never notably troubled by the hobgoblin of little minds, the minority leader executed one of his more spectacular political somersaults in becoming once again the champion of the civil rights bill...
...Lionel Rose, 19, a leathery young Aborigine from Gippsland, Victoria, put his native toughness and tenacity to good use. By outboxing, outpunching and outpointing Japan's Masahiko ("Fighting") Harada over 15 furious rounds, Rose took away Harada's bantamweight boxing title, and thereby became the first world champion-of anything-his people have ever produced...
...last two years, Weeks has been the New England AAU Lightweight Champion, and last year he won the Welterweight Championship as well. His career record is a fantastic 48 wins and 2 losses...
After a year with the club pro he entered the Indian National Juniors, and was promptly beaten in the first round. Two years later he was the Junior Champion. The next season, playing in two tournaments at the same time, he won both the Junior and the Men's Championships...
Although he is all right now after spending Saturday night in the hospital in New Haven, Murphy will be unable to dive in this year's Eastern Seaboard championship which begins Thursday at Princeton. Murphy was favored to repeat as Eastern champion and had a good chance to finish high in the NCAA meet March 17 at Yale...