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...Winningest Coach...
Yovicsin, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, has been director of physical training and recreation since 1970. Before this job, he was head football coach for fourteen years, retiring only after open heart surgery. "He was the winningest coach in Harvard's history." Pittenger said...
Senior Master Edmar Mednis' How to Beat Bobby Fischer is a detailed anatomical study of an Achilles' heel. The Achilles is Fischer, the winningest chess master in history; of the 576 games he has played since he became U.S. champion at the incredible age of 14, he has won 327 and drawn 188. But even Fischer occasionally loses; in the past 16 years he has booted 61 games. To whom? At what age? Was he playing white or black? Did he blunder? Was he outgeneraled? Do any patterns of weakness appear? In the most intriguing chess manual...
...there was a lollipop syndrome, its chief beneficiary last week appeared to be Harold Wilson, who would like to gain his fourth victory as Labor Party leader and thus become the winningest Prime Minister of this century. Slimmer, tanned and far more confident than during his lackluster February campaign, Wilson, 58, this time carefully husbanded his energy; he seldom made more than one or two appearances a night, and then only to packed gatherings of the party faithful...
...politics, the great modern exponent of the wisdom of the middle was, of course, Eisenhower. Summoned to office when American politics had become excessively cantankerous, his above-politics politics proved to be the winningest of all. His imitators have been striving for the same tone ever since. In his first State of the Union speech, Eisenhower (or his speechwriter) did a semantic balancing act that would have impressed Aristotle, promising to steer a middle course in foreign affairs "between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." The poet Robert Frost, growing impatient...