Word: champness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...
...Champ. Among them, Nieder, Davis and Long hope to win the three shotputting places on the U.S. Olympic team, and thereby keep O'Brien from going to Rome this summer. As for O'Brien, he professes complete confidence that the plot against him will fail. "So the Old Champion is supposed to be tired," he says. "Well, he still responds to the thrill of competition. Looks like the Babe Ruth of track and field has to come up with one for the big show...
...These are men like any other man," says Toolpusher Doug Parker. "They learn quickly and work well." The Eskimos have full acceptance in the two bunkhouses, the mess hall and recreation hut, where "Little Joe" Panuktuluk, 19, is undisputed card-trick and cribbage champ. Formerly a reindeer herder, Panuktuluk aches to go south. He speaks often of the world he has never seen: "The long highways, the buildings with rooms that go up and down, the cows and horses and the people that are too many to count...
...herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness, the twilight of great houses, are evocatively...
Died. Fausto Coppi, 40, Italy's idolized bicycle-racing champ whose zest and heart rate (30 to 40 per minute) helped him win the Tour d'ltalie five times, the Tour de France twice; of pneumonia; in Tortona, Italy...