Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, September 30 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The tape of the Sept. 28th return match in New York City for the World Middleweight championship between Titleholder Nino Benvenuti and ex-Champion Emile Griffith...
...spectacular 1:48 880 in the British nationals in July. Since Colburn was wearing a Harvard jersey in that race, official word has it that that time will be accepted as a university record. And then the next week, in Dublin, Ireland, Colburn upset the former Villanova star, IC4A champion, and Olympic finalist Noel Carroll, running a 1:49.1 half to whip the Irishman in his home town...
...Logic sometimes outruns truth. It was a plausible assumption, in your article on Rene Lacoste [Sept. 1], that the French champion gained the sobriquet, le Crocodile, because he "played so fiercely." Actually, he was called that because of his saturnine poker face, and it would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted...
Though the program has little chance of passage in the House-even if it gets through the full Senate-it was nonetheless a considerable embarrassment to the President, who would dearly like to appear as the champion of the cities, yet faces a $29 billion budget deficit that inhibits him from proposing any new and costly reforms that might strike at the heart of the urban malaise...
Today le Crocodile is 63, white-haired, bespectacled - and rich. He and Wife Simone Thion de la Chaume La coste, herself a onetime amateur golf champion, have three houses and move with the season. As he has grown older, Lacoste has turned more and more of a broad business empire over to his sons. Bernard Lacoste, 36, a Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company...