Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD CUP SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP (NBC, 12 noon2 p.m.). The final game broadcast via satellite from Wembley Stadium near London...
...World Cup-a buxom, foot-tall lady hefting an octagonal bowl on her shoulders-is probably the world's least artistic trophy. Without a doubt, it is the most coveted. For the unlovely lady is symbolic of supremacy in the world's most popular sport, football-or soccer, as it is known in the U.S. This week, as the teams move into the final contests for the World Cup, the world is gripped by perhaps the most severe case of football fever in history...
...teams in the running. By late last week, the only teams with a hope of victory were Britain, Portugal, the Soviet Union and West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept in public...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...week, both sides gave in to a compromise that satisfied De Gaulle's main point. Representatives of South Africa and South Korea in mufti slipped quietly into Hallstein's office, were received by the EEC president in a grey business suit, departed without so much as a cup of coffee...