Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians came to Geneva equipped with their standard stock of hats: the hat of the champion of German unity, of the eager apostle of disarmament and world peace, of the humanitarian opponent of atomic warfare. The publicity was wonderful, and they might have left Geneva as certified international good fellows-until a quiet man made a quiet point...
Always ready to tinker with the basic life processes if they can improve the breed, agricultural geneticists have experimentally transplanted embryos of cows, sheep and mice from high-quality mothers to lower-quality "incubator" females of the same species. Their goal: to allow champion breeders to conceive more offspring in less time, pass on the lengthy trials of pregnancy to their lesser sisters...
...like a shy weakling. But he had a way with horses. Soon he was driving and winning on bush tracks in New England and the Maritimes. He took a broken-down, eleven-year-old gelding named Dudey Patch and patched him up so well that he became a Canadian champion. On the little country tracks around the U.S. and Canada in the early 1940s, it was a common occurrence to see Little Joe win every race on the day's card...
...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
...Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...