Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That the Red Sox made it at all was due largely to the heroics of their two stars: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, 28, winner of batting's triple crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs), who got seven hits in his final eight times at bat, and Fireballing Righthander Jim Lonborg, 25, who locked up the pennant and his 22nd victory (v. nine losses) by cutting down the Minnesota Twins in the very...
Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...
Last Tuesday, 15 faculty members--including Dean Ford, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, and Nobel Prize-winner Edward Purcell--got the Johnson treatment. Critics in varying degrees of the Administration's war, they were invited to a private briefing by the President after sending the White House a letter of concern several weeks earlier. It is quite evident that they were honored with two hours of Mr. Johnson's time only because they were thought to represent the anxiety prevalent in the Harvard community...
...Yovicsin sat tall and dignified in the Dillon Field House Lounge, the picture of the good winner, defeated Lafayette coach Bruce Gamble sat slightly slumped in his chair, a deep frown creasing his face...
...long-awaited confrontation of Damascus, winner of the Preakness and Belmont, and the brilliant Dr. Fager will decide the hotly contested three-year old championship...