Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic that no one ever thought of it before last week. The very thing that made Champi's performance so unbelievable was the thing that had to debunk his deification. He was a substitute quarterback stepping into a hero's role. The old American success story. But in America heroes don't lose. And Champi knew when he came back to pre-season drills that he couldn't match his clippings. He admitted it. Harvard undergraduates knew it. Yovicsin, his staff, and Champi's teammates knew it. But the Boston papers chose to ignore...
...Columbia's success this season is defense Coach Joe Moldar modestly claims to have the best coolie in the Ivy League Considering that Yale's Steve Greenberg was a second team All-American last year the Lions' Dong Watt ranks very high in Moldar's opinions of goalies...
...photograph some self-designed stretch ski pants that Pucci was wearing. Lord & Taylor saw the glossies and asked if they could manufacture the pants. The rest is hysteria. In the years that followed, Pucci became the champion of sportswear, the prince of prints and-an important clue to his success-the creator of designs recognizable even...
...Francis made medical history by isolating the classic A strain of influenza; he identified the virulent B strain in 1940, and by 1944 he had conquered both with a vaccine so dependable that it was used to inoculate the entire U.S. Army two years later. But his greatest success came in 1954, when he supervised (he unprecedented field trials (covering 1,800,000 children in 44 states at an expense of $7,500,000) that validated the effectiveness of the polio vaccine developed by one of Francis' former pupils: Jonas Salk...
...film maker's sense of composition and a novelist's sense of rhythm and construction. The plot of One Fine Day is much like an anecdote by Chekhov. A middle-aged Milanese advertising executive (Brunette Del Vita) has led a smug and comfortable life of reasonable success with his job, with his family and his women. Two intimations of death destroy this placid equilibrium: a colleague is stricken with a heart attack at a staff meeting and the executive himself accidently runs over a construction worker. The colleague recovers, and the executive is apparently acquitted of the manslaughter...