Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gamow's interest in stellar reactions led Hans Bethe to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions. Says Teller: "Gamow had invented a new kind of game for the physicists, and Bethe proved to be the champion...
...Maire," protested the great hero modestly, "this is really too much honor . . ." But the mayor and all the citizens of Bernay who gathered in the town hall on that broiling day of August 1948 laughed aside the protest with proud, tolerant smiles. Too much honor? For Roger Touchard, the champion marksman of two continents, the local boy who had made good? Too much? "Ah, tell me, Touchard," said one of the local dignitaries, "what would you say to a red ribbon in your coat, the Cross of the Legion of Honor? What would you say to that, eh?" Roger merely...
...tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There's a big rifle-shooting contest on there, and I'm entering...
Such success on the boards means little compared to outdoor competition. But it does mean that Tony is in shape for his big effort. And it taught him that this summer, as he tries to play his way into the pros, one of his biggest problems will be Intercollegiate Champion Richardson, a Tulane senior (studying for the law) who puts in so much time studying when he could be playing tennis that he has won himself a Rhodes scholarship...
Today Brown must face Princeton's first-seeded star, roger Campbell, the defending National Intercollegiate champion...