Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress toward full participation in U.S. life. While they didn't make such big headlines, they have a considerable significance and can be read with a measure of pride by anyone who approaches the civil rights question with good will. Don't miss The Ace (in SPORT), Tenor in Whiteface (Music), and More Than Color (PRESS...
Come summer's dog days and Americans tend toward extremes. Some exhaust themselves swimming, gardening or golfing while others conserve energy lolling about on back porches or public beaches. But a growing number of people, in the search for a happy medium, are rediscovering a sport as old as the first air-pressure auto tire-tubing...
...many as 2,000 tubers drift by on a sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
...some time ago that Hester Prynne elevated suburban adultery to a community sport in the U.S. The British, as Author Camp tells it, still have not quite got the hang of the game. Sarah Hewitt is the "scarlet woman of Bickerton" in the London exurbs, squired everywhere by the hearty Derek while her husband puts his life into his work in the City. Things are not what they seem: Sarah has not earned her letter at all, but is merely a bench-warmer wrestling around in the raw without ever quite coming to the point. Even when Sarah moves...
Against the Klan, some Negroes have formed the "Deacons for Defense and Justice"; its members, many of them troublemakers long before Bogalusa's civil rights crisis occurred, openly sport pistols and rifles. For months, Deacons have exchanged shots and punches with white roughnecks. In June night riders murdered one Negro deputy sheriff and seriously wounded another. Two weeks ago, a Deacon shot and critically wounded a white heckler during a civil rights demonstration...