Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnehahas have produced no Margaret Meads, alas. But to the amateur sociologist, it soon becomes apparent that the people who live much or part of their lives on axles are fairly representative of American society as a whole-apart from those itchy wheels. FMCA members are doctors and lawyers and stockbrokers, many retired, some not; they are construction workers and accountants and secretaries, many quite young. They are, literally, driven people en route but not rootless, seeking from rally to rally and clime to clime old acquaintances and new, scenes to remember, sun sets of a different hue. L.W. ("Will...
Harvard Hillel. Jewish Coffee-House and Amateur Hour. Hillel House, 8:30 p.m. $1:00 admission...
...required contribution of $ 13 million a year by soccer-pool promoters to help the sport, among other ways, by supporting amateur clubs and combatting stadium hooliganism. The commission also urged stricter control over commercial lotteries, which came in for the heaviest criticism: "The situation we have discovered is scandalous. There is wholesale disregard of the law, commercial exploitation to a totally unacceptable degree and, we strongly suspect, a good deal of plain dishonesty...
...ranks of the nation's best, Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler revved up for a different kind of contest: the Six Hours of Endurance race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Making his professional track debut, Chandler, 50, drove his own Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind of scored one for the amateurs...
...sound." Principal cellist with the Pittsburgh Symphony under André Previn, Rosen was elated by his second-time-around victory. "Before, I was examining the style of others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky...