Word: winner
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...Americans traditionally underestimate the British power, but it takes no wizard to predict safely the winner at White City Stadium in London today. Harvard and Yale will even the series...
Harvard varsity trackmen should provide another four first-places for the Americans. Captain Wayne Andersen, the only returning winner from the meet here two years ago, should leave Hauk in the dust in the 100-yard dash. In the discus, Bruce Hedendal has been a consistent winner for Harvard all year and is superior to the English tossers. If hemeets opposition, it will come from teammate Ron Wilson, who, according to McCurdy, has developed remarkably in practice. During the season Wilson's best tos was 161-3 3/4; now he is regularly...
...husky Kansan, winner of two World War II Navy crosses, was so committed to pacification that the Marines became known as "Walt's Peace Corps." While assault units like the 1st (Airmobile) Cavalry rode their helicopters to major set-piece battles against big Communist forces in unpopulated areas, Walt's outnumbered Marines, for the most part, had to fight mile by mile, hamlet by hamlet...
...those thousands of spectators who were already on their way home by the time last week's Indy 500 reached the 492-mile mark could hardly be blamed, of course. One by one, they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged...
...winner at the trials will represent the United States at the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Canada, at the beginning of August...