Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NBC SPORTS SPECIAL (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The N.Y. Athletic Club international fencing tournament.
Athletic ticket book coupons will be needed for admission to athletic events in Soldiers Field this Saturday.
Sir: Fencing [April 3] is not only an athletic feat; it is an art, a skill, a fierce and fast-precision thing with judgments and reactions timed to the quarter-inch.
For Drebinger it was the beginning of a lifelong devotion. And since he did not have the athletic talent to become a big-league player, it was perhaps inevitable that he became a big-league reporter, one of that curious breed of semi-participant sportsmen known as sportswriters.
There were others. Liston seemed to be surrounded by curious people-like Nevada Gambler Ash Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor...