Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard track team will go to Cornell this weekend in hopes of regaining the Heptagonal Championship crown from undefeated Army...
...duplicating Penn's 6-3 victory over the Tigers, Harvard maintained its five-point lead over the Quakers in individual matches. The squashmen must defeat a weak Yale team Saturday to retain the national crown...
...British sufferer from A2 HK-68, I protest against the use of the term "Hong Kong" flu [Jan. 31]. The crown colony was the first victim, not the originator, of the epidemic. The virus was clearly manufactured in the secret mainland laboratories of China, probably under the malevolent supervision of Sax Rohmer's archfiend, the Devil Doctor himself...
...words were those of Fidel Castro as he marked the 10th anniversary of his rule in Cuba last week. A decade has elapsed since the barbudos (bearded ones) strode down from the Sierra Maestra to crown their revolution and take over the Caribbean isle, and the years have taken their toll. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is dead, killed in Bolivia in an ill-fated subversion attempt. Camilo Cienfuegos, another of the early heroes, is also dead, killed in an air crash shortly after the takeover. Posters in Havana today poignantly proclaim: "We are doing well, Camilo...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...