Word: sport
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Varsity Coach Harry Parker, who was also Gunderson's freshman coach, said of him, "His effectiveness and deep love of the sport are so manifest that they are universally acknowledged by his own crew and all other oarsmen as well...
...highly sensual implications of big-beat dancing have some psychiatrists worried. Says one: "It's sick sex turned into a spectator sport." The voyeur aspects are considerable. Hollywood A-Go-Go, one of the six nationally aired rock 'n' roll TV shows (including ABC's Shindig and NBC's Hullabaloo) that have debuted in the past year, features a line of young nubile blondes whose dancing would bring a blush to the cheeks of a burlesque stripper...
...only thing most Americans know about Ping-Pong is that it is played with wooden paddles and a light little ball that is forever getting lost under the TV set. In Red China, where there are 3,000,000 registered players, it is the national sport. Every commune, factory and office has its Ping-Pong league: in one Shanghai plant alone, there are 140 teams. So it was no surprise when last week's world table-tennis championships got under way in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, that the Red Chinese were head and shoulders above the players from 46 other nations...
Track isn't a big-time sport at Dartmouth; Harvard won last spring's contest 126-23. And the Crimson performances in Wednesday's Brown meet confirmed what many of us had suspected all along. This year's squad is a great...
Signs of Spring. The U.S. capital of lacrosse is Baltimore, which has been in love with the sport since 1878, when a track-and-field team returned from Newport, R.I., with news of a "most activating and exciting new game." To a Baltimorean, the first signs of spring are the dents made in auto fenders by kids practicing passes. Lacrosse is a major sport at most of the city's public and private high schools; and one or another of three Maryland colleges (Johns Hopkins, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland) has won the national championship...