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...only Harvard loser was sophomore Steve Devereux...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Strafes Army, Cornell By Identical Scores of 8-1 Indoors | 5/8/1967 | See Source »

...Francisco Warriors, local sportswriters tended to regard him as an oversized goon who could dunk the ball but rated zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good riddance? Undeniably-for Chamberlain and Hannum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Sweet Revenge | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...four minutes the gallants scuffled and grunted, until Defferre nicked Ribière on the wrist and then opened a small cut on his forearm. At that point, the loser allowed as how honor had been satisfied. "He's still a moron," said Defferre. "It's congenital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1967 | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...John Osborne's play is clear and classic: a revolutionary battles the world. Jimmy Porter rampages against his elders because they don't respect the working class; he challenges the working class because they're apathetic about Edwardian gentlemen; he fights his women. They don't love the loser enough...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 4/22/1967 | See Source »

...obvious loser in this unbusinesslike scheme is Britain's aircraft industry. It is foundering between inefficiency and inordinately high profits. The expense of developing the TSR 2 bomber, for example, became so outlandish that the government instead decided to buy 50 American F-llls. Commercial lines have suffered too; BOAC, after innumerable problems with British-made equipment, put $154 million down on six Boeing 747s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: An Excess of Excess Profits | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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