Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Richardson deciding to become the endorsee for Attorney General and with McGuire offering the prospect of minimal competition, a four-way battle emerged for the lieutenant governorship. But hardly any of the candidates, including the eventual winner, Francis W. Sargent, Volpe's former Commissioner of Public Works, seemed attracted solely by the party's image. The value of the endorsement is still a relative, not an absolute thing...
...take comfort in the fact that Los Vegas bettors, who are not in business to lose money, will not take any bets on Governor Brown. Though he is lagging behind in the polls (as he was against Knowland in 1958 and Nixon in 1962), they consider him a sure winner. It is a pleasure to be able to report at least one event of heart-warming familiarity in an otherwise war-torn political year...
...converted to Mormonism last Jan. 1 and spent the night before the play-off attending a church "fireside" 35 miles from San Francisco. Next day he fired his fourth subpar round of the tournament-a one under 69-to beat Palmer by four strokes for the $25,000 winner's purse. "Ten percent of it will go to the Mormon Church," he announced. Sighed Palmer, who wound up with the $12,500 that Billy had originally been shooting for: "Ten percent of it will go to my business manager...
...winner? By a grisly quirk of fate, it was the late Rex Manchester, on the basis of points scored in the first two heats...
...than a dozen times. Yet his latest song, Strangers in the Night, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, was No. 5 among the bestsellers last week and headed straight for the top. Sinatra's version has already been matched by no fewer than 85 other performers who know a winner when they hear...