Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The A.A.U. Indoor Synchronized Swimming championships in Salt Lake City, the World Professional Target Diving championships in Las Vegas, and the National Scrambles Motorcycle championship in Perris, Calif...
...Sargent Shriver Jr., 50, who as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity has been generalissimo of the war from its start, the answer is simple: It must be won. Shriver, the Kennedy brother-in-law who had previously nursed the Peace Corps from dubious birth to wide acclaim, admits that the anti-poverty campaign has been and will continue to be "noisy, visible, dirty, uncomfortable and sometimes politically unpopular." He argues, nonetheless, that if it should fail, the loss would be crucially damaging...
While he waited, he bounced like a matzo ball from Montreal to Minneapolis, from Cleveland to Cincinnati, driving himself 52,000 miles a year. His delivery ranged as wide as his itinerary; finally he settled down to a hostile style that got the audience before they got him. "I don't like you either," became his opening line. Somehow this worked, and King began earning as much as $2,000 a week with a stand-up routine of one-liners like, "We were so poor we lived below the candy store." Later, he played up to London, even...
...Hope, second choice of the bettors at 3-1, was hopelessly outrun. One by one, Kauai King's other challengers made their moves. Braulio Baeza rushed Stupendous up along the rail; Earlie Fires ranged up on the outside aboard Blue Skyer; Johnny Sellers took Advocator wide, came within inches of wresting the lead away from Kauai King on the last turn. "I had him hooked," sighed Sellers afterward, "but I didn't have enough horse...
...negotiate seriously with the U.S. on two issues of paramount importance: nuclear disarmament and the strengthening of the UN's peace-keeping machinery. Lord Harlech does not make the simple claim that Europe is more "important" than the Far East. Rather he implies that progress toward a world-wide East-West detente is more important than the rather confused issues at stake in Vietnam...