Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next venture for the champion Cosmos will be a demonstration of American soccer on a worldwide tour this month that includes stops in Caracas, Tokyo and Peking. Then Pelé will play the final game of his career in an October exhibition in New Jersey that will pit the Cosmos against Brazil's Santos team, his former squad (he will play the first half for the Cosmos, the second half for the Brazilians). Meanwhile, the soccer players are learning fast some of the more rewarding nuances of U.S. sports. They are in the process of forming a players...
...moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel of the pit by competing in the Toyota Pro Celebrity Match Race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., on Oct. 2. Does he think he has any talent at the wheel? "You need to have enormous concentration to be a great driver," says Plimpton. "I daydream...
...pit Jewish rap groups against looking for God is foolhardy for the obvious reason that it implies that God is not to be found inside the rap groups specifically because they are Jewish. This is not true...
...bone malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with supporters of the alleged anti-cancer drug. Facing four of Laetrile's leading advocates-three of whom have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute the apricot-pit extract into the U.S.-Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes" if an objective test found Laetrile worthless. All four agreed. But before the session ended, it was clear that no Government-sponsored trial would appease Laetrile's fanatic supporters...
Kennedy went so far as to promise that he would become Laetrile's biggest senatorial booster if a test showed that the substance was effective against cancer. But members of the self-styled apricot-pit gang remained hesitant. Said Robert Bradford, president of the right-wing Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, Inc.: "Orthodox medicine is not qualified to evaluate Laetrile." For one thing, Bradford and his cronies objected to the Government's plan to limit any test to terminal cancer patients. The Laetrile advocates also demanded that the clinical test involve not just Laetrile...