Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions, each by a single point. Henjyoji, wresting 123, withstood a two-point takedown by Rutger's John Brennan in the last minute of the match, and held on for a 9-8 win even though Brennan was awarded an additional point for riding time. Franquemont clipped the Scarlet Knight's Geno O'Donnell...
Captain Ben Brooks salvaged a little of Harvard's pride by pummelling Ron Grimm of Rutgers 11-2 at 191, but Paul Goble, the Scarlet Knight's undefeated heavyweight, decisioned Harvard's Tack Chace...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...
Midst laurels stood: TV Host Ed Sullivan, 62, installed as a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Order of the Knights of Malta, the 800-year-old Roman Catholic secular order; J. Paul Austin, 49, president of Coca-Cola Co., recipient of the 1965 medal of Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club for his "exemplary leadership"; Yachtsman Olin Stephens, 56, designer of Constellation, which defended the America's Cup for the U.S. last summer, winner of the Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Trophy of the North American Yacht Racing Union; General Lyman Lemnitzer, 65, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, awarded...
...uses pithy aphorisms ("When you are only half of something, you are really half of nothing"), which eventually works its way toward a modern message: "Never feel guilty about having warm human feelings toward anyone." The episodes are surprisefully plotted and seek variety in the bizarre: next week a knight in armor rides out the purple sage and rams his lance through a stagecoach door...