Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bidding to try and form a government. Fist fights and hubbub punctuated the session, and all the King's men and all of Papandreou's felt the pressure of last-minute efforts at coercion that included dark threats of murder. Tsirimokos spoke confidently of victory. The real winner turned out to be Papandreou, who, in his usual style, waited outside in the lobby before walking in dramatically to raise his hand and vote...
...next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than ever, helped popularize the bossa nova. One album, with Brazilian Guitarist João Gilberto, was belatedly released last year. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Winner of nearly every jazz popularity poll in the past two years, he recently moved into a 23-room, century-old mansion in Irvington, N.Y., with his wife and five children, this year expects to make a cool $250,000. Looking back, Stan Getz says: "It's been a struggle...
...Army Lieut. David Meredith, 26: the National Service Rifle (.30 cal.) championship of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches, scoring 796 points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...
...19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time of the centenary of his birth (1939). Since then, translations of his works (Epitaph of a Small Winner, Dom Casmurro) have begun to trickle into the U.S. market...
...difference between a Marr and a Jack Nicklaus is only a couple of strokes every 72 holes, accidents are bound to happen. One happened last week−and it was almost more than Dave could stand. He cried when they gave him a diamond-studded medal and the winner's check of $25,-000. "Some guys expect to win," he said. "But I never knew that I could...