Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snapped by Southern California 74-72. U.S.C.'s opponent in the final of the Los Angeles Classic was cross-town rival U.C.L.A., which started the season No. 1 and fell all the way out of the Top Ten when Playmaker Freddie Goss was laid up with a mysterious ailment and the Bruins lost three out of four. Last week Goss was back in action, and Coach Johnny Wooden's Bruins were looking more and more like the team that won the N.C.A.A. championship two years running. "We're coming along fast," allowed Wooden, after U.C.L.A. polished...
...Collins' ambitions, even his supporters acknowledge that he would hardly throw over his post in Washington for another four years in Tallahassee. The U.S. Senate seems a likelier cap for his career. Senator George Smathers, who has been seriously ill with ulcers and a kidney ailment, has already announced that he may not run again in 1968. Senator Spessard Holland, now 73, may also decide to step down when his present term expires in January 1971. Though little more than a mile separates the Commerce Department from Capitol Hill, in Collins' case a detour back to Florida might...
...life was not a singularly joyous one. Nor, despite exceptional intelligence and roots planted deep in Iowa soil, had it always been governed by common sense. Yet when the former Vice President died in a Danbury, Conn., hospital last week at 77, consumed by a rare, wasting neuromuscular ailment known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his ideas and ideals had long since been woven into American life, his grand illusions all but forgotten. In the 17 years since he campaigned for the presidency as a candidate and captive of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party, Wallace had retreated into obscurity...
...single all through the Series. Everybody knows though, that Koufax can't hit or run and that his fielding is so erratic his own manager says, "I worry every time he lobs the ball to first base." What's more, he is a physical wreck: a circulatory ailment nearly ended his career in 1962, and he now has "traumatic arthritis" in his pitching arm. But over five short seasons, Koufax has reached a pinnacle attained by no other pitcher. He has won 102 games and lost only 38, pitched a record four no-hitters (including a perfect game...
...communications companies and 190,000 space-minded investors; into the air he launched the Early Bird satellite, now relaying sound and pictures from a perch 22,300 miles over the equator. Welch, who had earlier retired as Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired major general with degrees from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar studying modern languages) and from West Point and M.I.T. (both in engineering...