Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robertson. To him last week came the ultimate accolade from one professional to another. "I'd pay money," said Syracuse's Coach Hannum, "to watch Oscar Robertson play basketball." And for so long as even Robertson's rivals feel that way, the fans are sure to flock...
Officials bustled up to lead her to the prize table and a flock of waiting photographers. The girl who had just successfully stormed the male citadel of the Millrose Games turned anxiously to a nearby friend. "Quick, do you have a mirror?" Wilma Rudolph asked. "Quick, do you have a comb...
Henry R. (for Richardson) Labouisse, 56,Director of the International Cooperation Administration. Owner of a distinguished record in the State Department, Labouisse (Princeton '26, Harvard Law School '29) served between 1941 and 1951 in a flock of key assignments, most of them involved with foreign aid, relief missions and economic affairs. After that he turned in an excellent performance for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, directing the aid program for Arab refugees. In 1959 he was President Eisenhower's choice for the ICA post, but Capitol Hill Republicans blocked the appointment because New Orleans-born...
...raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets in the U.S. at the age of 55. (Last week Kyrre, now 57, lay critically injured in a Burlington, Vt. hospital with a skull...
...medal in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley with one jump of 306 ft. This season, showing the brand of toughness the Finns call sisu, Recknagel has won central Europe's toughest title with a gigantic jump of 323 ft. at Bischofshofen, Austria, in addition has taken a flock of warmup meets against the Austrians...