Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality of competition at the quadrennial Pan-American games rarely requires U.S. athletes to do anything more exhausting than show up - except when it comes to baseball. To Latin Amer icans, baseball is a passion, not just a pastime, as the U.S. team learned last week at Winnipeg when it lost its very first game 4-3, and to Cuba at that. But by week's end the embarrassment was eased by the brilliant performances of U.S. swimmers-not so much be cause they won practically everything in sight (nine of eleven events), but because they demolished three world...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the swimming and track-and-field events at the Pan American games, live from Winnipeg, Canada...
...largest, with 3,182 air-conditioned rooms. Imitating the U.S.'s interstate highway system, Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated by 40 new motels. Formerly closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with...
...Harvard, the Pan-Am championships proved a test of its sturdiness against tough international competition. Only one Crimson rower is graduating from the team, and the others will definitely have an eye out for the Olympic Trials next year if they win convincingly next week...
...Pan-American games, a 20-event sports spectacle, will begin July 23 and continue through August 6. More than 3000 athletes from 24 countries are pouring into Winnipeg, which contains a 25,000 seat stadium. Prince Philip will declare the games open Friday...