Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Romney may not be a hotshot bowler, but he is no quitter. To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls. Pursuing his presidential hopes, Romney is proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...
...fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy...
Yale's top player is their hotshot senior guard, Bob Trupin. The Elis have a slight height advantage over Harvard with their front line of 6-4 Rick Johnson, 6-5 Don Tayler, and 6-5 Tom McCaffrey. But the key to Yale's win over Harvard last weekend was the defensive play of guard Herb Broadfoot. The 6-0 junior crowded Sedlacek incessantly, preventing him from getting off his lighting-fast jump shot and holding him to a paltry nine points...
...more than a one-man show this year. The Bradley mystique lured a number of high school basketball stars to Nassau two years ago, and the Tigers are benefiting this year from the presence of such sophomores as 6-9 Robbie Brown, 6-6 Ed Hummer, and hotshot backcourt man Gary Walters...
That left Ky in a strong position. A hotshot, American-trained aviator of 34, Ky affects orange coveralls, pearl-handled revolvers and political dash...