Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national conference of journalists in Prague, the newsmen announced that they could be silenced only by force. "I am not interested in the pronouncements of those who cannot stomach freedom of the press," proclaimed Literárni Listy Editor Antonin Liehm. "The alternatives are simple. Either they will win, in which case more than just freedom of the press will disappear from this country's life, or they will lose...
Except for the last sentence, Terry Sullivan, 30, could have been writing home about graduate school. Instead, his words appeared in a recent issue of Win, a magazine devoted to the Nonviolent Movement against the Viet Nam war. Sullivan's observations were intended to reassure fledgling draft resisters, to tell them that the ordeal of prison is not as terrifying as it seems. A draft resister who spent ten months at Danbury Correctional Institution in Connecticut, Sullivan was released a year ago. He recommends prison as "a great experience-you'll love...
...star in one of the most segregated U.S. sports. In a five-set match, Ashe, 25, defeated blond Tom Okker of The Netherlands, 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, for the U.S. Open championship. His victory made him the first amateur to win a major open event, the first Negro ever to capture the U.S. men's singles crown, and the first American in 13 years to win his country's most prestigious tennis title...
...system itself." Within the industry, Strouse made many other speeches, and there his message was different. Advertising might not be immoral or wasteful, but he conceded that some of it-not, of course, from J. Walter Thompson-was too often brassy and offensive. "Every single advertisement," he insisted, "must win its own right to intrude...
Died. Tommy Armour, 72, golf's battling Scot, who won all the big tournaments in the 1920s and early '30s; after a long illness; in Larchmont, N.Y. Gassed at Ypres in World War I, Tommy was strong enough by 1920 to win the French Amateur, in 1921 moved to the U.S., where he turned pro and swept his era's top tournaments-the Canadian Open (1927, '30, '34), the U.S. Open (1927), the P.G.A. (1930) and the British Open...