Word: champions
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Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor emeritus and vigorous champion of civil rights as well as an authority on equity and commercial law, died yesterday morning of a coronary thrombosis. He had entered the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital last Saturday. Chafee was 71 years...
City Manager John J. Curry '19 was branded as a former "champion for the masters" by labor representatives seeking a flat $440 yearly pay increase for all City of Cambridge employees, at an executive session of the City Council yesterday...
...Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian Ira Murchison improved on a disputed victory over Duke's Dave Sime in the 50-yd. dash at Philadelphia...
...Skinny, sharp-elbowed Sandy Saddler, World's Featherweight Champion, abdicated his title after learning that he is suffering from "progressive blindness." In a twelve-year career, Sandy fought 160 fights, won 143, scored 102 knockouts. Three pretenders will fight for the right to take on Sandy's heir apparent: France's Cherif Hamia...
Souchak, defending champion Jimmy Demaret, and Ken Venturi will play it off today over the Palm Springs California course...