Word: sport
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Some day they'll make baseball an Olympic sport, and the World Series will be played some place else besides Yankee Stadium. The Dominican Republic will probably win it, of course, but Americans can always cry on the shoulders of the Japanese. Last week, for the first time in Olympic history, judo was on the calendar. The Japanese took three gold medals. But a 6-ft. 5-in. Dutchman named Anton Geesink won the open championship, and the U.S., which got its first real introduction to judo on Guadalcanal, won a bronze medal when Virginia's Jim Bregman...
...addition to these nation-rattling events, there was other hard news to be assessed-for example, the Russian space troika (SCIENCE), and the spectacular U.S. success in the Olympics (SPORT). With all that, TIME'S editors-by the very nature of their mission-went right on with a full schedule of stories on another level, such as ART'S critique of "op art," a new movement across the Western world; MEDICINE'S report on the use of animal corneas for transplant into the human eye; RELIGION'S study of an ecumenical milestone, the first Bible translation...
...Lieut. Pinkerton's visit to Japan. Over the first seven days of the XVIII Olympiad, smashing 10 world and 18 Olympic records in the process, the greatest group of athletes ever assembled under any flag achieved one of the most amazing conquests in the gaudy history of sport...
...most startling surge came in rowing, a sport once dominated by Americans, since revolutionized by European advances in technique and equipment. Washington's Ed Ferry teamed up with California's Conn Findlay and Kent Mitchell to win a gold medal for pairs with coxswain; the U.S. picked up a silver medal in the double sculls, a bronze in the coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down...
Other nations, too, would have their days this week, and the laggardly Russians were hoping for a bumper harvest in such events as canoeing and gymnastics. But so far, at least, in sport's biggest show, the spotlight shone brightest...