Word: sportsmans
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...nine years of dealing with the cliquish, 44-man board, and then persuaded Harold S. ("Mike'') Vanderbilt to accept the presidency and lead the school back to the role that his great-grandfather had charted for it-strengthener of ties "between all sections of our common country." Sportsman and Financier Vanderbilt was the first of his family to serve on the board, and he took the job seriously; in private airplanes, he flies into Nashville once a month from homes in New York, Palm Beach and Virginia, works "in great harmony" with Chancellor Branscomb...
...from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls in the stretch pants schuss by. Says one spectator sportsman: "The development of stretch pants is really more important than the discovery...
...their Sportsman of the Year, the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED picked towering Jerry Lucas, star of Ohio State's top-ranked basketball team and the U.S.'s 1960 Olympics squad. Said SI: "Jerry Lucas is not only a fine athlete but a symbol of his generation's best at a time when its best is sorely needed by his country as well as his sport...
...three princesses all went through intricate prenuptial purification ceremonies, including a ritual dousing administered by female attendants. At the ceremony itself, they all wore veils. For Lalla Aisha, especially, the choice of husbands seemed felicitous. Her husband, Hassan al Yakoubi, is known as a widely traveled, fun-loving sportsman, more accustomed than most Moroccan men to the ways of emancipated women...
Married. Del E. Webb, 62, hustling construction king who shares ownership of the New York Yankees with Sportsman Dan Topping; and Toni Ince, 40, former Los Angeles millinery buyer; both for the second time; in Reno...