Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players ever get a chance to vote, there is little question of how the balloting will go. Australia's John Newcombe, the world's No. 1 -ranked male player and the defending Wimbledon champion, says that he will defend his title even if he has to turn pro to do so. California's Billie Jean King, who won this year's ladies' crown at Wim bledon, will be back, too: "I favor open tennis," she says realistically and practi cally, "and I would be happy to play it." Arthur Ashe, the No. 2-ranked...
...Champion's appointment is the first to come out of the task force on talent-hunting set up by White, which is headed by Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government, and which includes Barney Frank...
...party for Champion at 78 Mt. Auburn St. last night, Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Institute of Politics, praised the new BRA director for his "voluntary labor for the Institute" during his year here. Champion and three others--Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations; Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; and Howard Raiffa, Frank Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics--organized a Faculty study group on "Decision-Making by Candidates in a Contested Political Campaign...
...Champion said last night that he "is concerned about neighborhood participation." During his six years in California, he explained, he had administered a program which set up 13 neighborhood cen- ters throughout the state. In these centers, all kinds of government agencies came together and Champion hopes "to be involved in the same kind of project in Boston...
...Champion's term at the Institute was to expire January 31. It is known that while White's aides were suggesting the BRA post to him, he was also considering several other offers, including a job similar to the BRA directorship in a city larger than Boston. He visited that city over the weekend, and told White Monday morning he would accept the Boston post...