Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania, sipped champagne as a band played Happy Days Are Here Again. The occasion was American's bubbly celebration of its new service between Harrisburg and Chicago. The highlight of the festivities was the presentation of a plaque to the first passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines by threatening...
...Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart: "He's one in a million." The winner gets $25,000. Will it be Nemo, prompting all the noncelebrity contestants to cry foul? Finalists will be announced in October, and then the public gets to vote. Making the All-Star team could not have been more nerve-racking...
...employees, he was host at a cocktail party for Reed at the Club, a private dining room in the Citicorp Center on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Said a bank officer: "Theobald was the one who did it, not Wriston. Tom invited people over to have drinks for John, the winner. It was a class act." -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York
...distressing horse melodrama mysterious enough for Dick Francis, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winner Swale collapsed suddenly last week. Just eight days after his emphatic four-length victory at Belmont-the 1½-mile test of three-year-old champions-Swale returned from an ordinary gallop, reared up, tumbled over and died...
...fully examined for ten days; complete toxicity tests might take a month. The dark carcass of the son of Seattle Slew was sent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for more than the traditional burying of the head, heart and hoofs. As Claiborne's only Derby winner, he rated burial in an oaken casket with a silver lid lined in the farm's yellow racing color...