Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jim Baker, the spare English captain, rebounded from sub par performances in the Big Three and Heptagonal meets--both won by Harvard--to take a strong twelfth place. Running his best time of the year at Van Cortlandt, Baker still trailed the winner, sophomore Art Dulong of Holy Cross...
...last week's Heptagonals, Hardin won his second straight after a month of injuries, breaking 25 minutes over Van Cortlandt's rigorous five-mile layout. The wiry captain Jim Baker, front runner for the first four miles, finished eighth, Heyburn 18th, McLoone 21st and Howe 22nd as Harvard topped Navy by ten points and Yale...
...aggressive coaching methods (Runner: "What can I do to run faster Coach? McCurdy, "Run faster") and unusual meet style (He dresses in sweat clothes and races madly around the course shouting strategy and encouragement), most of the runners give equal credit to the leadership of the captain, Englishman Jim Baker...
...side when election day rolled around. By chance, he had been in Tel Aviv during the six-day Arab-Israeli war last June; later he appeared in Rome when Philadelphia's Archbishop John Joseph Krol was installed as cardinal, thereby gaining overnight a statesmanlike image. At home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class Italian population. Since the city suffered no riots last summer, Tate also kept a grip on the predominantly Democratic Negro voting bloc, 226,000 strong. Many...
Still, Justice William O. Douglas has observed that "we all come to the court with our bags fully packed." And Warren's bags contained one overriding asset: his finely honed skill as a politician and administrator. A big, friendly man who has been described as a "Swedish Jim Farley," he has in reality as much political toughness as geniality. Warren obviously believes that in vital areas where the legislative and executive branches will not or cannot move, it is up to the court. Under him, the court has taken the Bill of Rights and extended it in every direction...