Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past their prime. A former college golfer turned lawyer and the father of three, McCormack, almost singlehanded, persuaded the networks to televise professional tennis by lining up sponsors himself, and he is the promotional genius behind such TV sweat derbies as Celebrity Superstars and the N.F.L. Arm-Wrestling Championship-all of which are well-stocked with I.M.G. clients. "I'm not an agent," says McCormack. "I'm an engineer of careers...
...sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation to share the royal box at a tennis championship match in Monte Carlo. "Of course I love her, who wouldn't?" asks Junot. But both the suitor and the princess discount rumors of marriage. "There's so much to see and do, and I'm young," says Caroline. Her top priority at the moment is going...
...comeback by the Philadelphia '76ers fell two points short in the closing seconds of their game at Portland yesterday, as the Trailblazers hustled their way to a 109-107 victory and their first NBA championship in the sixth game of the NBA playoff finals...
When McGinnis' ten-foot shot off the inbounds pass juggled about the rim and bounced off, Portland had the game and the world championship. The place went wild...
...Scott Simpson is expected to retain his national individual championship but Barton Goodwin of Rice and Jeff Sanders of Oregon (who finished second and third last year when the tournament was held in Albequerque, N.M.) will also be returning...