Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high as $15,000 and George II candlesticks for $3,000, largely because any host can not only use them, but be more than proud to display them. (What housewife dares entrust to a maid, or even herself, the washing of a Ming plate or a Meissen cup?) Some private collectors are charmed by the nostalgia that exudes from an emblazoned baronial crest, enchanted by the social history implicit in a snuffbox and fascinated by the expertise needed to decipher the silversmith's hallmarks...
Winthrop and Quincy gained ground in the Strauss Cup race this week as three intramural championships were decided. Winthrop won both the "A" basketball and skiing crowns, while Quincy captured the swimming title...
Kerr is entertaining, but his casual, anything-for-a-laugh approach can only confuse his less-experienced students. He never uses a measuring cup and knocks Fanny Farmer for her chemistry-class precision. But how are his viewers going to know that a Kerr "short slurp" equals one fluid ounce or that "one glug" means one and a half? Julia Child, appalled by his use of canned asparagus and packaged ham slices, writes his program off as "a desecration of fine cooking." He is producing "a personality show or a ladies' show," she says. "He's a tall...
...boom in Western Europe, but have also ended the lopsided superiority of teams from Iron Curtain countries. The New York Knicks' Bill Bradley, for instance, while studying at Oxford University three years ago, commuted to Italy to help Simmenthal upset teams from Moscow and Prague for the European Cup Championship...
...Life. For two members of the Real Madrid team, defending champions of the European Cup title, basquetbol has become a way of life. Clifford Luyk, 27, a 6-ft. 8-in. center from the University of Florida who was lured away from the New York Knicks by a touring Madrid scout, and Wayne Brabender, 23, from Montevideo, Minnesota, have both become Spanish citizens. "It was not for political reasons or anything like that," says Brabender. "But I like the life here and have lots of friends." More typical of the U.S. players abroad is Brabender's teammate, Miles Aiken...