Word: winners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Vincent du Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in synthesizing penicillin, the climax of years of work by an international task force...
...winner, portly, avuncular Lawyer-Politician Luis Herrera Campins, 53, leader of the centrist Social Christian Party, got some 47% of the vote. That put him well ahead of the field of nine other candidates, including Acción Democrática's Luis Piñerua Ordaz, 57, who won roughly...
...prises: some topnotch Cash originals; a country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser/ And the best that you can hope for/ Is to die in your sleep...
...career hits (Rose now has 3,164), and he fancied the Phils' billiard-slick artificial turf, which will help his ground balls whiz past infielders. Perhaps most of all, he delighted in the challenge of making the talented also-rans of a town of renowned losers into a winner. Proclaimed Charlie Hustle: "I think I can put them over the top. The team needs leadership...
...think they felt they needed a young coach who wouldn't mind sticking around a few years until he built a winner," Carlesimo said last night...