Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference. Chicago's business-like John Patrick Cody, 59, as head of the nation's largest archdiocese, was more or less automatically in line for a red hat. Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle, 70, of Washington, D.C., has a reputation within the church of being a sturdy champion of minority rights and a skillful organizer of charities. The fourth new U.S. cardinal, Pennsylvania-born Francis J. Brennan, 73, has for eight years been dean of the Sacred Roman Rota, the church's highest tribunal on marriage matters...
...staple on his breakfast table, and a well-balanced diet to nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good little man. For those who are not big enough, or energetic enough, modern science lends...
...Successor was installed as the winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. He finished four lengths behind Damascus, who was third. And two weeks later, while Damascus was making the mystics look like geniuses by winning one of the greatest Preaknesses in history, where was the two-year-old champion? Sixth in a second-class field of eight in a mediocre allowance race at Aqueduct...
...remainder of the field will not be definite until today, but they will end up strung out behind Damascus. Cool Reception, last year's champion two-year-old in Canada, has the best record of these others, looks like he can go a distance, and may be closest to the Preakness winner at the Wire...
Terrell, the Eastern junior squash champion, teamed with Peter Abrams, the fourth singles player, at second doubles. Abrams, who also played number two on the squash team, was "one of our best volleyers," according to Wynn. Bill Ball and Pat Hindert, the third doubles combine, were "our hardest-working players," Wynn said...