Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came from as far away as Rhode Island, Texas and Michigan. Inside the arena, meticulously dressed fans exchanged tips in well-modulated tones. In most of the U.S., cockfighting today is a tawdry, fugitive affair of back alleys and darkened cellars. But in the bigtime environs of the Orlando (Fla.) Game Club, cockfighting is a perfectly legal "sport" whose devotees are proud of its bloody heritage. Last week, as the Game Club staged its 42nd annual international tournament, a trade magazine called Grit and Steel was moved to declare that the Orlando is "the oldest and most steeped in tradition...
Last week's spectators at the Orlando paid $6 just to get into the arena, anted up another $5 if they wanted reserved seats down front. With avid concentration, they followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
When Australia began its defense of the Davis Cup last week in Sydney, the headlines belonged to the emotional antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best...
Whenever the going got rough, an invariable sequence of events always seemed to overtake Italy's two standout tennis stars: lithe Nicola Pietrangeli would weep, towering Orlando Sirola would laugh, and, sooner or later, both would get beaten. But last week in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Perth, Australia, the emotional Italians, crying and chortling as always, suddenly turned tough under pressure. After losing two matches in a row, they rallied to defeat a favored squad of U.S. youngsters 3-2, thereby earned Italy the right to challenge the proud Australians later this month for the Davis...
...serves with overhead smashes to win in a rout, 9-7, 6-3, 8-6. Unable to stand the strain of watching the match, Pietrangeli had nursed his anguish at a nearby beach, returned just in time to see the final point, crying: "The best match I never saw Orlando play...