Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raising the physical standards of U.S. youth, a golfer named Dwight Eisenhower invited 32 sports leaders to come to the White House this week and help him plan how to lure more young Americans into competitive sports. Among those on the guest list: Golfer Bobby Jones, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, Army Football Coach Earl Blaik, Tennistar Tony Trabert, Track Stars Mal Whitfield and Wes Santee, Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, National Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Champion Barbara Romack, Navy Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz, U.S. Open Golf Champion Jack Fleck, onetime U.S. Sculling Champion...
...chess players had a fine time in Moscow-except when they sat down at the chess tables. There the Russian grand masters, who whipped them 20-12 last year in New York, gave them their worst trouncing yet, 25-7. But the U.S. team had considerable consolation. Its own champion, Samuel Reshevsky beat Russia's World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
...Jimmy Carter, lackadaisical lightweight champion of the world, had already won his title three times and lost it twice. In the Boston Garden, Wallace ("Bud") Smith, a stubborn, long-range stylist from Cincinnati, was out to make him lose it again. By the 15th round, both boxers were hot, but Carter had taken too long to get started. The decision went to Smith...
...Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...
...ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...