Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Indianapolis 500 Automobile Race, plus a preview of the U.S. Open golf championship...
...past two decades, since Mao Tse-tung seized control of nearly one-quarter of the human race, the U.S. has done its best to quarantine Communist China. The policy began with nonrecognition, based partly on moral disapproval of the Communist takeover. It was later stiffened with "containment," a strategy designed both to weaken the regime and to keep the Chinese from overrunning their neighbors. Despite a long tradition of U.S. sympathy for China, most Americans have regarded the quarantine as all the more prudent since China exploded its first nuclear device...
...fact, China has been involved less dramatically outside its borders than the Soviet Union, which has Hungary and Czechoslovakia on its record, to say nothing of the Middle East arms race and the mounting of missiles in Cuba. On the other hand, China has consistently posed a subversive threat to its neighbors, with the propagation of a militant revolutionary doctrine that generally scorns peaceful coexistence with "imperialists." Peking backs so-called national liberation movements from Thailand to Mozambique...
...when they should as well as at those who commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office, and who has set up a state within a state..." But he does not agree...
...freshman year, when he set a University record of 1:48.0 in the British National Championships. The captain-elect for next season was sidelined most of last year with a ruptured Achilles tendon, and his times this year had been in the low 1:50's before Saturday's race...