Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with added chapters on minority groups' contributions to America...
...teams most experts figure to fight it out for the pennant, would rank No. 7 and No. 10? That Pittsburgh's Matty Alou, who led the National League in batting last year with a .342 average, would be hitting .217? That San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal, winner of 93 games over the past four seasons, would be sporting an 0-3 record and an earned-run average of 6.38? Or that it would rain in Los Angeles...
...minutes Saturday, Harvard's team outplayed Cornell, the winner of 18 straight games. But a lacrosse game is 60 minutes long, and Cornell used those extra 15 minutes to the fullest, as they tallied six times to pull out a 10-8 victory over the Crimson...
...leading Nichols by one stroke, Yancey by four and Boros by five. Taking no chances, Gay lagged the ball to within 2 ft. of the hole, tapped in for a 67 and a 72-hole total of 280-eight under par-and went off to collect his $20,000 winner's check from the original Master, Bobby Jones. "Actually," Brewer confided to Jones, "I choked a little out there." "No you didn't," replied Bobby sternly. "You don't choke and win this tournament...
...Runaway winner for the Wolf Girl Award was Julie Christie, who also sported the highest-riding miniskirt. Her bangs nearly reached her hem, while her tresses swung in savage disarray around-and over-her face. Ginger Rogers wore superlong locks reminiscent of the '40s. Ann-Margret, Anouk Aimee, Anne Bancroft and Singer Jackie DeShannon wore their hair laissez-faire-uncurled and uncut...