Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody minds a man's risking his life and limb in the pursuit of sport. If only he would not rationalize. The fellow who climbs a Mountain "because it's there" might just as well say," because it's blocking the view." Then there is Bob Wegner, 30, a wiry cowpoke from Ponca City, Okla., who says that he rides 1.500-lb. Brahma bulls "for money...
...lure, of course, was the boats themselves - 510 different models ranging in size from a 6-ft. pontoon knockabout to the 44-ft. Pacemaker power cruiser (with electric dishwasher, refrigerator, and two showers), in price from $69.50 for a sailing dinghy to $70,000 for a 42-ft. sport fisherman. Some of the highlights...
...million a year, and the pari-mutuel handle is expected to top $500 million in 1965. At least half of that will be bet in Florida, where 16 tracks (four in Miami alone) outdraw the horses by a margin of 2 to 1. Florida dogmen classify their sport as "nighttime entertainment." The big tracks run eleven 5/16-mile to 9/16-mile races an evening (purses: up to $80,000), provide extras like free parking, bar service, "lead-outs" in white dinner jackets to parade the dogs to the post, and fanfares from 4-ft. trumpets. The fans like it so much that...
Muzzles & Meatballs. The tracks make such a big deal out of keeping the sport clean that racing hounds even have the color of their toenails recorded for identification. During race meetings, the dogs are kenneled at the track, are constantly muzzled, fed nothing but a carefully supervised diet of vegetables, vitamins, horse meat and beef. On race days, they are confined to guarded cages to make sure that nobody throws them a "meatball"-a wad of hamburger laced with a stimulant or depressant-and they are given postrace drug tests, just like horses. The tests are so exacting, in fact...
Plotting against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots-real or imagined-is the government's favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last week Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, head of the military junta that ousted President Víctor Paz Estenssoro last November, was suddenly crying plot as if he had invented the game. Barrientos' troops rounded up 26 of the ex-President's supporters and disarmed the 2,000-man national police. The cops, fumed Barrientos, while calling for reorganization of the force, were...