Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy all week with form sheets and result charts, and some are known to resort to the sliderule, the abacus or even tea leaves. For a bet in the football pools is matched only by the Irish Sweepstakes as the gambling world's biggest play, bringing a lucky winner tax-free riches well worth a lifetime of concentrated, calculating devotion. A 43-man syndicate won $967,640 a year ago, and one man once took home...
...home waters off Piraeus. Tanned and smiling, Greece's King Constantine, 26, had a casual rationale for being that far behind: "I haven't been training in Lightnings for the last two years." Besides, the King of the Hellenes had the satisfaction of presenting the winner's silver cup to a countryman, George Andreadis. Later, Constantine exchanged his striped boating shirt and sneakers for a more formal outfit, and rushed back to the royal summer home on Corfu to help the royal family celebrate the 20th birthday of his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. His birthday present...
...such big-boat races as the America's Cup and the Newport-Bermuda contest, the winner owes as much to his boat as he does to his own sailing savvy...
...each and are as alike as a school of anchovies. After the first two days, Boston's John J. ("Don") McNamara, 34, and Darien, Conn.'s William Cox, 53, were so far over the horizon that no one could catch them. McNamara, a bronze medal winner in the 5.5-meter class at the 1964 Olympics, was ahead with 371 points (1, 1, 3, 2, 1). Barely 2½ points behind (2,2,2,1,3) was Cox, who at 17 had won the North American junior championship and skippered American Eagle in her unsuccessful bid to become...
...Named for and partly designed by Cornelius Shields, first winner of the Mallory...