Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name players--Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley...
...about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they play? What's the score?" he demanded. Told that the Soviet Union's East bloc allies had eked...
Bill Russell, 40, has been a big man in professional sports since 1956, when he led the University of San Francisco to its second straight national championship and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the triumphant U.S. basketball team. Soon afterward the 6-ft. 9½-in. Russell joined the Boston Celtics, and in 13 years of competition he was named most valuable player five times and starred on eleven championship teams. During two of those championship seasons (1968 and 1969), Russell was player-coach for the Celts, the first.black coach in the history of the National...
Harvey I. Sloane, 38. The fragile appearance is deceptive; Sloane plays championship squash and jogs two miles every morning before taking up his work as mayor of Louisville. Son of a Manhattan broker, Sloane is a graduate of Case Western Reserve Medical School who worked with the U.S. Public Health Service in Appalachia. In Louisville he has encouraged hundreds of volunteers for city programs and has established a health center in a poor black area. Using his clinic as a base, he won a resounding victory last November over a popular former Louisville chief of police...
...junior varsity boat, replaced McKenna at two. Tim Hackert, also on the J.V. boat, took Howard's place on the starboard side. Even though both were better than adequate replacements, the crew never got back the momentum built up en route to an undefeated season and an Eastern Sprints Championship this spring. Besides the loss of raw power in the boat (Howard and McKenna were the two strongest oarsmen on the team) the makeshift Crimson crew lacked that essential ingredient in rowing that distinguishes a first-rate from a second-rate crew. The rhythym that a team builds after racing...