Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Valuable Player. Four years later, Frank was still swinging respectably, batting .296, but the Reds decided that he was getting old and traded him all the way over into the American League. Too bad for the Reds. Last season Frank won the league's batting triple crown with 49 homers, 122 RBls, a .316 average, and led Baltimore to its first American League pennant and World Series championship. Now, at 31, Frank has been named the Most Valuable Player again, the first man ever to win the title in both leagues...
Princeton, which lost tailback Dick Bracken in the first half against Yale, will have to play at its best this Saturday against rugged Cornell for its share of the Ivy crown...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
Into a higher corporate orbit goes U.S. Astronaut John Glenn, using a 12-oz. bottle of Royal Crown Cola as a launch vehicle. Royal Crown's vice president for corporate development, Glenn last week was also named chair man of the company's international subsidiary. He and Morgan J. Cramer, a former president of P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and now R. C. International's president, aim to increase foreign sales 25% next year. Other U.S. soft-drink makers are also training some of their highest-priced executive and promotional talent on the foreign market, whose growth rate...
...balance, it looks like a close game, and certainly a vital one for Harvard on the path to the League crown. Princeton is a three-point underdog, but the Tigers feel that they are a different team than the one that lost to Dartmouth and Colgate, and almost to Columbia, early in the season. But the Crimson smarts from losing to Princeton for two years running, and will be fiercely protective of that big, fat 6-0 record...