Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victories. Even so, the loser himself well knows that he remains a loser; only by heroic mental gyrations can the also-ran restage the race in his favor. Obviously, triumph and defeat are defined by society rather than the individual. If a Ted Williams bats .400, for instance, the grandstand regards a .300 batter as a loser?and so does...
Provocative Pirouettes. Such grandstand plays draw expectable cheers and catcalls from the audience. The Cleve land Plain Dealer referred to Cosell as a "white Muslim," while one sportswriter called him a "screaming, pirouetting jackass." Maury Allen of the New York Post says he is "probably the most dramatic, most interesting, most provocative guy in our business...
Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...
...British fashion). This quirk was not abandoned until 1920, the historic year that Man o' War, fighting for his head all the way, won the Belmont Stakes by 20 lengths and set a world's record. But for the past six years, while a new $30.7 million grandstand was being built, Belmont has existed only as a practice track, and its classic races have been run elsewhere. The worrisome question to track enthusiasts: when Belmont reopens, will it be the same...
...improvement on the old: a four-level, cantilevered viewing stand, rising as high as a ten-story building and stretching a quarter of a mile. The best of Belmont has been retained and refurbished, including the paddock sheltered by a well-trussed, 140-year-old white pine. The new grandstand quarters for the exclusive Turf and Field Club would have been approved by the track's namesake, August Belmont (ne Schonberg), who once declared: "Racing is for the rich...