Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bo Anderson, a former Dartmouth heavyweight, has had to rebuild his varsity around the returning veterans of last year's undefeated Thames Cup Champions...
...that far fetched. A crowd of 41,598 turned out at Yankee Stadium last September to watch Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from his opponents. Soccer's rectangular field is perfect...
...Harvard sailing team surprised the best boats in the country with an unexpected second-place finish in the Kennedy Cup Regatta at Annapolis last weekend...
...biggest name in skiing. She won four out of seven races against Europe's best (TIME, Jan. 20). Then she went home, and the French took over. Coach Honore Bonnet's charges won practically everything in sight: Jean-Claude Killy sewed up the World Cup for men; Marielle Goitschel and Annie Famose fought a ding-dong battle for the women's championship. Even after competition moved to the U.S. last month and Nancy got back into action, her chances of overcoming the French girls' lead in the standings seemed remote. Going into the final event...
...only way Nancy could win the cup was by sweeping both the giant slalom and the special slalom. And that is exactly what she did. In the giant slalom, she flashed to a .41-sec. victory. In the special slalom, leading Marielle by only .05 sec. after the first run, Nancy announced: "I can run a little faster next time." She could indeed. She then whipped down the 1,250-ft., 56-gate course in 44.51 sec. to edge Marielle by .02 sec. Her total margin of victory was only .07 sec., but by that thin hair Nancy Greene...