Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) ordered the "lay enthronement" of the late Eva Peron; pictures of Evita are to be posted at all union headquarters so that "workers may venerate [her] memory...
...leagues are the Ivy Fencing, Golf, Lacrosse, Squash, and Wrestling Leagues. All will institute round-robin pay, except the golf league in which the team championship will be determined at the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association tournament...
...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...
Halpern has run such star-spangled events as the Marciano-Charles heavyweight championship fight last September and the opening of the Metropolitan Opera in November (TIME, Nov. 22). But he also learned that the big money lay in televising national sales meetings and other conventions for big corporations. In the past two years T.N.T. has televised eleven conventions for companies ranging from National Dairy (Seal-test) to James Lees carpets. At one such TV roundup, International Business Machines was able to brief 2,000 salesmen in Manhattan on a new electronic brain instead of bringing them to its Poughkeepsie...
With only one defenseman left from last year's Pentagonal championship squad, Weiland has decided to put Doug Manchester, high-scoring center, on the 1953 second line, at one defense post, and wingman Pete Summers at the other...