Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live to see his city hall completed, but the finished building has remained remarkably true to his original concept. Rising up from Toronto's mixture of old and new buildings, it has taken the shape of two curved towers (27 and 20 floors, respectively) that, like gigantic hands, cup the central civic plaza. There, standing like a champagne glass on a single stem, is the low city-council chamber and mayor's office. Beneath the complex is a four-level parking garage with space for 2,400 cars. Setting the center off from its drab surroundings...
...Pistol Matches, scoring 796 points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...
...curious thing about Spain's defeat of the U.S. in last week's Davis Cup interzone semifinal was that it wasn't even an upset. True, Spain had never exactly been a world power in tennis, but it did boast the world's best clay-court player in Manuel Santana, 27, a tenacious, skillful shotmaker who had won his last eight Davis Cup singles matches without losing a set. And when the visiting Americans got a look at the copper-colored center court at Barcelona's Real Club de Tenis, they knew they were...
...best of five series the quickest way possible with three victories in a row. A split of the last two singles matches made the final score 4-1. Now only India or Japan stood between Spain and the Challenge Round in Australia−and, just maybe, the Davis Cup itself...
...Gold Cup means to powerboat racing roughly the same thing that the Indianapolis 500 does to auto racing. The boats are the biggest, fastest and trickiest to handle; powered by souped up 2,000-h.p. World War II aircraft engines, they scream along at speeds up to 180 m.p.h., tossing huge rooster tails of spray 40 ft. high in their wakes. The crowds are the biggest-300,000 or more. And the prize is the richest-$10,500, plus a new car to the winner. At last week's 58th annual running of the race on Seattle...