Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What's the best amateur first-aid for persons who have been Maced...
Foremost among the new instrument makers is Robert Moog, 34, an amateur musician with a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell. The electronic synthesizer that bears his name -a 4-ft.-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it-is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an "orchestra" for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows and the clarion call that heralds Westinghouse...
...Sunday, Cetrulo won 17 consecutive sabre matches to win the New England Amateur championships. The honor, gained in competition with 32 other amateurs, qualifies the sophomore star for the North Atlantic Amateur Championships in early...
Theoretically, all the European teams are amateur, but under-the-table deals offered to the Americans allow them to enjoy, in effect, all the benefits of an expense-free vacation-and then some. In Italy, U.S. players are paid an average of $12,000 for the six-month season of pallacanestro, while such sought-after stars as Mike Lynn, a forward on U.C.L.A.'s championship teams for the past two seasons, command up to $30,-000. Like Gary Schull, some players are "on scholarship," which usually means that they are enrolled in a language course. Jim Tillman is listed...
...school career at Noble & Greenough, with his final year at Choate, adjusted easily to his new position at right wing last year. An All-American in his last two years in prep-school, Owen was number one on last year's freshman golf team and has done well in amateur tournaments in the state...