Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Davis Cup tennis championship from Adelaide, Australia...
With FBI encouragement, Sinatra set up a listening post in a sixth-floor suite in Reno's Mapes Hotel, while radio reports announced where he was. For 16 hours he sat by the telephone, smoking cigarette after cigarette and gulping coffee; his only food was a cup of soup...
...seized Rothschild mares with German stallions. Now Guy directs all the breeding: "I enjoy making up my mind for the matings, and then seeing the babies." His most successful match produced Exbury, winner of all five races he was entered in this year, including the world's richest cup, the Prix de 1'Arc ($197,000). Figuring that Exbury could not top that record, Guy retired him, and the horse henceforth will earn $240,000 a year at stud-accommodating up to 40 mares a year at $6,000 per service...
Tennis fortunes wax and wane-and Australia's mostly wax, while the U.S.'s mostly wane. The Aussies have won the Davis Cup in eleven of the past 13 years; the U.S. has not even reached the Challenge Round since 1959. But last week U.S. fortunes took a distinct turn for the better. The U.S. team had already beaten Mexico and Britain handily. Now it needed only to get past India in the interzone finals to challenge Australia for the cup...