Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in the streets, to the cheers of thousands of onlookers. The escolas de samba, neighborhood associations that practice intricate dances for months to put on the most stunning show, come into their own then, singing and prancing their way past the reviewing stands of judges, who choose the winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into...
Lakefield College School is presently making a hockey tour of New England. Although it is rated a strong Canadian prep school team Harvard is picked an easy winner...
Together, Mia and Dustin represent a coincidence of other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized...
...story John Hancock Center is a most unusual building. The world's second tallest, the 1,107-ft.-high skyscraper* is designed, in effect, as an apartment house atop an office building. A forerunner of the multipurpose "vertical city" of the future, it also looks like a financial winner. As the first tenant moved in last week, the owner, Boston-based John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., predicted that by next year the building will be producing a "respectable return" of about $7.5 million annually on the company's $95 million investment...
Sharp competition could push the winner of the 600 under the record time of 1:12. Harvard's John Gillis, B.C.'s Mark Murray, and Northeastern's Mike Roberts have all carded respectable times this season. Murray will be seeking revenge for two narrow losses to Gillis in the Knights of Columbus and Boston Athletic Association meets...