Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promoting a new addition to the Olympic oath ["I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur"-Aug. 13]. He was reporting an amplification, not a change, of the pledge which has been in the rule book for years. The object is only to ascertain the intention of the competitor at the time of signing the pledge, there was "no surprise to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures." Moreover, there was no "backtracking," only an explanation. The statement does indicate when "aspiring pros become illegitimate." It is that minute when they become aspiring pros...
Just about the only competitor who stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool...
After 82 Years, Ferment. Sold to a group of bankers who lacked the Welch blend of virtue and hard-sell, the company made little headway after Dr. Charles' death in 1926. In mid-Depression, the ailing grape-juice industry was rescued by a Welch competitor, Jacob M. Kaplan, a self-made molasses mogul who had bought control of Hearn's department store in New York. After buying a small upstate New York winery in 1933, to supply Hearn's liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started...
...last week's race. Bodies had to be wider; full windshields were required. But the real clincher was the new gas ration: with tanks holding no more than 34⅓ gals., cars were to race at least 34 laps (about 292 miles) before refueling. No longer could a competitor ram his throttle to the floor and ride; now drivers would have to nurse their fuel with the kind of careful racing that keeps gas consumption relatively low and speed records even lower...
...idea that is not uncommon among U.S. horse trainers. Nashua, the millionaire thoroughbred, along with many a competitor, shuns tap water, drinks only Mountain Valley Water, a bottled mineral elixir from Hot Springs, Ark. Some trainers think the spring water tastes better to horses, is good for equine kidneys. Horses are occasionally shipped to Hot Springs itself, where they can run at Oaklawn Park while taking heavy dosages on home ground...