Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: It made me very sad to see Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their demonstration for Black Power. Winning the gold and bronze medals were great personal achievements, and I am sure that any Negroes watching were proud. But was it necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I...
Improvisation. In a sense, Nixon was merely getting even. Humphrey has attempted to equate Nixon with Wallace and make the Republican ticket synonymous with reaction and recession, and was still at it last week. Winning the presidency, he said, is "not worth a compromise with extremism." Again: "You cannot afford...
Negative Victory. Party Chief Alexander Dubcek continued to wage a political rearguard action, losing some skirmishes and winning others. Resisting
The Americans dominated track and field, winning 15 events, as 15 world records were broken and two others tied. Curiously, the stiffest competition came not from the Russians, who proved unaccountably weak, but from three African nations-Kenya, Ethiopia and Tunisia-which among them won every running event from the...
Australia's Mike Wenden surprised everyone by splashing to victory in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. And Felipe Munoz, an unsung, 17-year-old prep-schooler from Mexico City, gave the host nation its first gold medal of the Games when he edged out Russia'...