Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times-until, just ten miles from the end, South Carolina's Cale Yarborough, 28, edged into the lead in his 1968 Mercury. He crossed the finish line with an average speed of 143.251 m.p.h. And there was Bill France, handing Yarborough the trophy that went with his winner's check...
That willingness to fight for peanuts was what got Lionel his crack at the 118-lb. title. Winner of 27 out of 29 pro fights and the sixth-ranked bantamweight in the world, Rose was strictly a substitute challenger-for California's No. 1-ranked Jesús Pimentel, who had demanded a bigger share of the pot. Dancing and weaving, easily evading the champion's bull-like charges, Rose raked Harada with sharp jabs, floored him for an eight-count in the ninth round and outpointed him on the cards of the three ring officials...
Thus, both American policy makers and citizens tend to think that the Vietnam war is the crucial contest of the age, with the winner taking all. The U.S. is seen to be preventing an omnipotent genie from escaping its bottle by jamming in the Vietnam stopper...
Pulitzer Prize-winner Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the Boston area premiere of his Second Piano Concerto tonight...
Even if Johnson can't produce a winner here at Harvard, he can always bring in his own press team to tell us that the scoreboard is wrong. Unfortunately, Johnson presently has other commitments. But there is unbounded hope at Harvard that he'll be looking for a new position when the basketball season opens on the first Wednesday in November...