Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DURING a full year of civil war in Nigeria, the secessionist state of Biafra has banked more on winning the world's sympathy than a military victory. Last week the Biafrans had an undeniable claim to attention-and to pity. Malnutrition was killing off more Biafrans than the Federal...
It's kind of a game, see. You've already bought a $1,000,000 de Havilland private jetliner and a $600,000 yacht and a $305,000 diamond, and you" bank account shows more zeroes than a no-hitter. So what do you buy next? A whirlybird...
It may be some consolation to other blue-water yachtsman to learn that Sumner A. ("My friends call me Huey") Long, 46, suffers from seasickness. It is certainly their only consolation, because Long, a Manhattan ship broker, is the world's most successful ocean-racing skipper. Between 1960 and...
With the schedule Long has planned for Ondine, he had better corner the Dramamine supply. Last week, only days after the Newport-Bermuda contest, Ondine was racing again, on a 3,700-mile course across the Atlantic to Travem¨unde, Germany-a voyage that will take most of a...
In a startling series of upsets, seven of the top ten seeds were eliminated before the quarterfinals. Six of them were pros-and five of those six were beaten by amateurs. At the end, two Australian pros, Rod Laver (seeded No. 1) and Tony Roche (No. 15) turned back the...