Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place after films showed Golf Ace bore out and cut off Head Man in the stretch. After the race, Arcaro agreed to ride Head Man in the Kentucky Derby next week at Churchill Downs, where highly favored Needles and Career Boy are already working out. ¶ While World Champion Shotputter Parry O'Brien outtossed Newcomer Bill Nieder (60 ft. 2⅛ in. v. 59 ft. 7⅛ in.) in the feature event at the 31st annual Kansas Relays, a University of Texas team whirled to a new world record in the 440-yard relay. George Schneider, Jerry Prewit...
...champion of free enterprise Alberto Pirelli expects to keep his company growing, and workers' living standards rising. Says he: "I hope we never stop." Suiting his action to his words, President Pirelli jauntily set out for North America this week to inspect his newest wire and cable subsidiary in Mexico, then will head north to open still another new 300-worker plant in St. Johns, Quebec...
...conviction that man is governed by his God through his deathless soul. Along came the Renaissance and then the 18th century rationalists to counter this doctrine with another faith: man is re sponsible to reason alone; there is no God. no immortal soul. Then came Sigmund Freud to champion a newer hypothesis: man. without a God. is largely governed by a strange, little-known power called the Unconscious. It was a startling, indeed a discomfiting theory (though it had been hinted at even before Oedipus confronted the Sphinx), for it asked man to alter his vision of himself and almost...
...stopped one match to complain that the ball was too soft and not really round, took half an hour, examined 192 balls before he continued his play for the men's singles title. The winner: Japan's Ichiro Ogimura, in an all-Japanese final against Defending Champion Toshiaki Tanaka...
Died. Tsunego Baba, 80, longtime champion of a free Japanese press as president (1945-51) of the nation's third largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 2,133,000), of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...