Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might not live long enough to finish it," warned Mme. Rubinstein, then 92. Picasso sketched away, tossed one on the floor. She bent to pick it up, and he put his foot on it. She pleaded; he would not budge. In that contest of wills, Picasso was the winner...
...fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost a decade. Last week was no exception: the winner was Japan's Kenji Kimihara, 25, who pit-patted across the line in 2 hr. 17 min. 11 sec.-just 38 sec. off the record. As it turned out, though, the day's most eyecatching performance was turned in by a 112-lb. American who did not dare...
...example, he hired Toni Wine, who was then a 15-year-old sophomore at Juilliard. Toni proceeded to run her advances up to $20,000. Suddenly, this month, she has broken into the Billboard "Hot 100" with a likely winner, A Groovy Kind of Love. The lyrics, of course, were written by another Kirshner protégé, Schoolteacher Carol Bayer...
Next: SST. Lockheed and Boeing are still locked in lethal competition for Government approval (and subsidies) of a supersonic transport design. To the winner, that approval will be worth at least $10 billion; a decision by President Johnson is expected this year. In their lobbying efforts, Boeing people like to point out that Lockheed has never made a pure-jet commercial passenger plane; Lockheed representatives retort that Boeing has never made a supersonic plane of any sort...
...victory ceremony, there was an awkward moment: tradition calls for the defending champion to help the new champion into the winner's green blazer. "Fellows," said Nicklaus, "I'll put my own coat...