Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock for routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing to join the fleet in the fall as the Navy's champion of nuclear striking power. She is designed to land and launch bombers, e.g., the Douglas A-3-D, which can carry city-razing payloads at more than 600 m.p.h...
Schulberg's story is, with scarcely any disguise, the Primo Carnera story. Like the onetime (1933-34) heavyweight champion, Toro Moreno ("El Toro, the wild man of the Andes") is a big country bumpkin who stands 6 ft. 7¾ in., weighs 285 Ibs., and serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract...
...Basch '57 successfully defended his title as Harvard Individual Bridge Champion Tuesday night in the Eliot House Dining Hall. Kalon L. Kelley '59 finished second to Basch...
Bernie Flynn of Eliot House splashed to the finish line three seconds ahead of last year's freshman champion, Bart Thomas of Lowell, to retain his title as House single scull champ yesterday in the feature race of the House rowing finals. Eliot also took firsts in the wherries and comps...
...three Eliot winners had previously rowed on the Elephants' champion crew team which defeated Pierson College of Yale and set a course record of 3:42.5 for the short five-eighths of a mile...