Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic component of greatness in baseball is longevity. Juan Marichal's skillful assortment of pitches and love of the game ensure his being a 20-game winner for at least another decade. He may not be President of the Dominican Republic by then, but being the mayor of San Francisco...
Besides being football captain and holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...
...black and brown (and on one occasion scared the daylights out of a black who thought the big bwana was going to hit him). In Durban, Kennedy stood atop a car and sang We Shall Overcome with his audience. In Groutville, he visited Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the proscribed African National Congress. At Cape Town University, standing next to the symbolic empty chair that Ian Robertson could not occupy, Kennedy told his racially mixed audience: "We must recognize the full human equality of all our people-before God, before...
Back at Southeast High School it is a big think for a sophomore to be the team star or a letter winner. Even at colleges upper class-area understandably dominate intercollegiate sports...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...