Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dave Benjamin, who has been hampered by a back injury, beat M.I.T.'s Dave Chandler, 6-4, 6-3. Benjamin's back could be the key to Harvard's success this year. However, he was not pressed to win so the condition of his back was not really tested...
Paco is pleased but not surprised by his sudden success: "There was a need for a new concept of feminity," he explains. "Feathers and boas have no meaning for today's woman. She needs something clean-cut and brilliant." The ideal? "A shining rubber paint that would dry into a second skin...
...HOUSTON SYMPHONY has come a long way from the days when it played Old Black Joe for encores and accompanied a wrestling match at a war-bond rally. The secret of the Houston's success today is Sir John Barbirolli, 66, whose solid musicianship, gained during a long career as conductor of such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and Britain's Hallé Orchestra, compensates mightily for the lack of depth in his players. Mindful that attendance had skidded with the modernist programming of Leopold Stokowski (1955-61), Barbirolli plays it safe and sticks close...
Heady with success, Schmidt is now talking about getting an honorable discharge and says that he even expects to get damages from the Army for his unlawful imprisonment...
...Heroine of two bestsellers by Joy Adamson, wife of a senior game warden in Kenya, Elsa began her well-documented career as an orphan cub, became a 300-lb. lapful of love and affection, but ultimately returned to her wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained their friend until her death in 1961, paying them frequent visits, sometimes with her own trio of snarling cubs...