Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard team, which does not receive official recognition or financial support from the University, has been built up largely by the volunteer efforts of Gus Jacaccl, who was coach through 1963, and Charles Gibson, the present coach. Despite the severe handicap of having no place to practice near Cambridge, the Harvard team has qualified for the last three years among the top five teams in the East who ski in the NCAA's against the Western teams...
Coach Charlie Gibson called Chaffee's effort as the "high point of the day for us" and praised the team for its improvement...
Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager...
...strength of the team's chances remains in the running events. In the long distances Bob Stempson, Joe Ryan, Paul Gibson, Bill Wilson, Bob Baker, Steve Marx, and Richard Langenbach are going to have to add important points if the squad is going to improve on its 6-1 record of 1963. Baker and Langenbach have turned in respectable 4:22.1 and 4:26.2 performances in the mile...
With a 6-0 lead, Gibson was unbeatable. He fired practically nothing but fastballs ("If they hit it, they hit it. If they don't, they don't") at the frenziedly swinging Yanks who tried everything-even throwing bats his way. Striking out nine, Gibson kept things barely interesting by feeding gopher balls to Mantle, Linz and Clete Boyer. Then with an eye for irony, he persuaded Bobby Richardson, the Yankees' leading hitter, to pop up for the last out. By a score of 7-5, the St. Louis Cardinals had their first world championship...