Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bostwick, who likes to describe court tennis as the "chess of sports," needed every gambit he could muster in last week's match. Willis, who lost the first round of the match, 7 sets to 3, repeatedly drove threadneedle shots into the grille and dropped unplayable lobs into the corners to go ahead in the final round 5-3. Needing only one set to win, Bostwick jumped out to an early lead at the start of the final day. During a volley for match point, he drilled a hard shot at the grille. Willis managed to get his racket...
Real success, however, is not so simple. Last week the Beatles lost control of Northern Songs when a consortium of financial companies added their 14% to Associated's holdings and made a deal in which it will name four of the six directors. Britain's High Court will decide next month on who should pay whom in the Nemperor case. As for Apple, it is too soon to see whether Klein's pruning will produce profits...
After six weeks, ten of the 15 members who were found overweight lost a total of 80 Ibs. Sales Manager Ed Burns, 50, who has to reduce from his original 199 Ibs. to 179, vows that he will make it even if he has to live in a sauna. The trouble is, he says, that if he wins the bonus, he will have to spend it all on altering his clothes...
...fourth King flied out to Winslow. Then Ward reached first on a safe hit over second base. MacKenzie hit to Cook, who fielded Ward out at second. Whittemore threw low too low for Dickinson to catch Mackenzie at first and thus a chance for a double play was lost. Otto's three base hit to left field brought Mackenzie home, and the side was then retired by Altman's striking out. In the fifth, Brooks and Gunster struck out and Williams fouled out to Scannell. In the sixth Payne reached second on a wild throw of Whittemore over Dickinson...
...winner--Irish Catholic, handsome, personable, intellectual, and quotable--attracted attention outside of Ohio, too. Throughout the campaign he projected the image of a candidate concerned with issues in a coherent way. Students turned in large numbers to volunteer, and liberal journals noted his potential for national leadership. Then he lost...