Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...athlete sobbed near by. Next day the 45 who had decided to stay in the West climbed into buses to board another plane, bound for freedom. Even for them, there was no joy. Hearts torn in two directions are not quick to gaiety, and at the airport even a champion wrestler was seen to be weeping unashamed...
Holiday on Ice (Dec. 22, 9 p.m., NBC) will glisten for 90 minutes, featuring 44-year-old Sonja Henie as the Sugarplum Fairy in the Nutcracker Suite, and Olympic Figure-Skating Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins...
...little cause for complaint, except where too many commercials studded the movies to pay off their huge costs. Some network executives professed to be unworried; they said that affiliates are showing the big movies on their own time, not during the choice hours pledged to networks. But NBC, staunch champion of "live" television (in part because of its deep involvement in color TV) is frankly fretting...
Next day, overcoming the judges with a peerless exhibition, the women's defending champion, comely Pat McCormick, 26, a California housewife, spun through intricate optional dives, performed a final running full-twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault that was good enough to add the platform title to her springboard victory and make her the first diver ever to win both titles in two Olympics. This was slim pickings, indeed, compared to Russia's sweep of 11 of the 17 gold medals in gymnastics, three of which were won by lovely Larisa Latynina...
Died. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 63, round-faced, tempestuous champion of India's 60 million untouchables and principal author of India's constitution (adopted in 1949), which makes discrimination against untouchables a crime; in New Delhi. Himself an untouchable (and thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months...