Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face. The reformers reflect the trend toward embourgeoisement of the party members. Recognizing that voters are no longer gripped by old revolutionary slogans and that today's prosperous workers are more interested in Mercedes-Benz than Marx, many Communists have changed their tactics. Accepting the rules of the political game in their countries, the reformers vow to seek power only by legal means. If they ever get into it, they promise, they will reform the society, not violently tear it down. They will, so they say, respect civil rights and freedom of the press while bringing about a more equitable...
Perhaps it was only a threat, but the tears were certainly authentic. Joe Willie Namath, quarterback of professional football's world-champion New York Jets, insisted that he meant business when he announced at a news conference that he was "retiring reluctantly" from the game-and taking Teammates George Sauer, Pete Lammons and Jim Hudson with him. The 26-year-old superstar, whose high-velocity passes carried the Jets to a startling 16-7 upset over the National Football League's powerful Baltimore Colts earlier this year, gave as his reason the latest in a long series...
...competition in the six-horse field. Rokeby Stable's Arts and Letters, the tireless little sprinter who challenged the Prince right down to the wire in the Derby and the Preakness, figured to be an even stronger contender at the longer distance. Then there was Dike, the game, never-quit colt who, with five weeks' rest, was more than up to staging one of his patented come-from-nowhere finishes...
...front. Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money of $104,050 and new status as one of the Belmont's foremost spoilers...
...Yankees began four years ago, a quiet hysteria was developing last week. Before their unbelieving eyes, the tanglefoot New York Mets were turning into a team of superlatives. As they beat San Diego 5 to 3, at week's end the Mets were riding an eight-game winning streak, longest in their eight-year history. Their 26th victory against only 23 losses raised their percentage to .531, their highest ever.* The streak also propelled the Mets into second place in the National League's Eastern Division, the first time they have been so high in league standings...