Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mild a word to describe Jimmy Clark's turn of luck. The best-known racing-car driver in the world, two-time Grand Prix champion, winner and twice runner-up in the Indianapolis 500, Clark had not won a Grand Prix race all year, and he had lost his world title to Australia's Jack Brabham...
Defensive line coach Jim Lentz is cautiously pleased with the defense's progress--ends and all--and does not plan any new formations to stop Lion quarterback Rick Ballentine, a dangerous passer and runner who enjoys rolling out to the right on the option play...
...Providence's victory was a tight three-man bunch, Rob Crooke, Larry Olsen, and A1 Campbell. They got into good scoring position very early and no Harvard runner challenged them for fourth, fifth, and sixth places...
...assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the leaders of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party met in the Parliament building in Cape Town to choose his successor. There were half a dozen candidates for the job, but it was never much of a race. The obvious front runner was beefy Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 50, Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, and boss of the massive security organization that enforced South African apartheid...
...Only Constituent." In the light of Bobby's ambitions, getting shut out of the vice-presidency in 1964 was possibly the best thing that could have happened to him-as for Jack Kennedy was his loss of the 1956 runner-up spot to Estes Kefauver. Humphrey, fenced in by the responsibilities of the office and his allegiance to "my only constituent," as he calls the President, is powerless to counter Kennedy's growing appeal. "He's been too good a Vice President," says a Democratic Congressman of Humphrey. "He's absolutely dead," says another. Both could...