Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "the Observer, quickest to capitalize on 'Chichysteria,' announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer." In fact, there was no question of the Observer capitalizing on Chichester's round-the-world voyage. The Observer has been sponsoring the singlehanded transatlantic race at four-year intervals since 1960. The winner in 1960 was Francis Chichester...
...calls "a limited adversary relationship." It is not clear why the Russians chose to make some of their conciliatory gestures on nuclear arms. The likeliest guess remains the most obvious: prudent self-interest, a desire to avoid the scattering of nuclear weapons to small nations, and a grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from being elected...
...controlling the Tories as Wilson is having with Labor. Last spring, when right-wing M.P. Enoch Powell unleashed a virulent anti-immigration speech in Birmingham. Heath fired him from the shadow Cabinet. Two weeks ago, ignoring party policy, 45 backbenchers hooted down their own leaders and voted against a race-relations bill that broadly outlaws discrimination...
...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...
News programs are devoted interminably to coverage of Cabinet meetings or scenes of officials dedicating schools and swimming pools. The International Herald Tribune described them as "the special kind of news in which the United States is alternately in the hands of race rioters or drum majorettes, where England is a country of eccentric peers, a sinking currency and constant tea breaks, and where France is a happy, if intensely boring, land whose only worry is that some damned foreigners might win a soccer match...