Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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sturdily supported Pinay's 1952 government until he tried to take a sliver off family allowances, for which the party, as Catholic spokesman, feels itself a special champion. Thus, a government falls because of the accumulation of differences -not with its enemies-but with its friends...
...York Giants, dawdled with a golf club while his neatly fabricated wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day, photographed a sunny scene for their family archives. Durocher's sunny mood and vacation will end next week, when he will be in Phoenix to start spring training, whip the world champion Giants into shape for aiming at their 18th National League pennant...
...ahead on points after skimming through the compulsory figures, honey-haired Tenley Albright, 19, stood poised and calm on Vienna's open-air rink as the band swung into a lilting melody. Then, with all the confidence of a champion, long-legged Tenley glided out to begin her free skating-the difficult double loops and axels and double salchows of her own devising...
...come in the mile and the broad jump. Art Wills has cut his mile time down to 4:19.6 which places him close behind Bill Smith of B.U., who has run a 4:13.6 mile. Rittenburg has broad jumped well over 22 feet and could outdistance Yale's Heptagonal Champion Dick Goss, and Army's Bob Kyasky...
...Pickett once candidly admitted "there's no glory to wrestling." But the varsity coach is hardly as pessimistic about the sport as this might lead one to believe. For almost 20 years the former 175-pound national champion has virtually lived on the mat, first as a school and college champion and now as coach. Today he is two meets shy of ending his fifth season as varsity coach...