Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Corley Wallace kept insisting that he would stay out of this year's presidential race if either major party nominated a man satisfactory to him. As the Montgomery Advertiser dryly noted, however, the U.S. has not produced such a man since John C. Calhoun, the champion of Nullification and states' rights, who "unfortunately has not been available since 1850." Bowing to the inevitable, Wallace flew up to Washington, D.C., last week to announce at a press conference that he will run for the job himself under the banner of his recently formed American Independent Party. "I fully...
...ladies' downhill by almost half a second over France's Isabelle Mir. The pro-caliber Russian hockey team blanked Finland, 8-0, and East Germany, 9-0, then handed the U.S. squad its third straight defeat, by the equally lopsided score of 10-2. Nine-time World Champion Eugenio Monti, at 40, demonstrated that he has lost none of his skill and daring by piloting Italy's No. 1 sled to victory in the first two heats of the two-man bobsled. And no one could keep pace with Russia's Ludmila Titova in the ladies...
...surprise, Harvard's "fantastic four" continued to obliterate their opposition. Anil Nayar, the newly crowned Canadian national champion, smashed his opponent 3-0 before a packed gallery of dazzled Williams students. Larry Terrell, Jose Gonzalez, and captain Rick Stern polished off their opponents with similar ease...
WHRB will present a special--"Professional Wrestling," at 7:30 p.m. tonight featuring interviews with world champion Bruno Sanmartino and the lowest of all managers. Wild Red Berry. Said the WHRB commentator George Vary, "It's one of the funniest things I've ever heard...
...opening match Nayar will meet Tom Jones at noon today. Between him and the tournament crown lie Peter Martin the Canadian college champion, Ralph Howe, who won the North American Open last year, Bob Hetherington, who was runner-up in the Nationals last year, and Sam Howe, to whom Hetherington lost. Sam Howe, Hetherington, and Ralph Howe--Sam's brother--are seeded first, second, and third in the tournament...