Word: championships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many-splendored diplomat is Edward Kennedy Ellington, 68. Invited to Washington to grace a White House dinner honoring Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his Queen, the Duke had just spooned into his dessert when the background musicians, a championship jazz group from North Texas State University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were...
...reverse his conviction on appeal to higher courts, he would consider reducing sentence to something closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best heavyweight in the world -will ever again be a championship contender. As he himself once noted: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
...first row, he trailed Jimmy Clark's Lotus-Ford and Jackie Stewart's B.R.M. through the first 20 laps, then roared into the lead and pulled away to win by 63 sec. despite a balky, smoking engine. The victory earned Dan nine points toward the Grand Prix championship that he has never managed to win although he has tied for third and placed fourth in the final standings driving foreign cars. "It's a long season, and I don't want to make any predictions," said Gurney. "But this win was no fluke...
...players on the tour"-and so far he already is: with $27,230, he ranks No. 2 in money winnings, and he has beaten Laver six times in 16 matches. The other hot rookie is Australia's Fred Stolle, 28, winner of the 1966 U.S. amateur championship, who last week shocked Laver, 6-3, 6-4, in the quarterfinals of the $19,000 U.S. Professional Hardcourt championships in St. Louis...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Figure Skating from West Berlin; the World 600 Stock Car championship at Charlotte, N.C.; and a preview of the U.S. Open Golf championship to be held at Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield...