Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) wouldn't go with anyone. He said he didn't want o took foolish predicting a winner in the 101st Game without knowing anything about Harvard or Yale football...
While any numbers of Crimson staff members will go--and have gone-to outlandish lengths to prognosticate publicity, cajoling a real public figure into picking the winner and score of four to eight Ivy League football games can take some persuadings...
DIED. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975, father of the slain civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in his own right a pioneer in improving race relations; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. A sharecropper's son, "Daddy King," as he was affectionately known, led several early local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another...
...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...
...Schwarzenegger, he nicely fleshes out the convention of a soulless gun for hire. With his choppy hair, cryptic shades and state-of-the-'80s leather ensemble, he looks like the Incredible Hulk gone punk. Some day he and Supergirl should get together in a winner-take-all hybrid sequel. These two could make beautiful music together-say, America the Beautiful rendered in teeny-bopper heavy metal...