Word: sport
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...predict that he would win the heavyweight championship. But in his story, Sportswriter Charles Parmiter seriously raised that possibility, although most people, including many of our readers, dismissed Clay as a loudmouthed clown. As Parmiter points out in this week's story on the Liston-Clay fight (see SPORT), Cassius is still loudmouthed and clownish-but more than that as well...
Though kangaroo hunting dates back years in Australia, it is only recently that it has become more a war than a sport. Some Australians have been so worried by the slaughter that several states ruled that kangaroo hunters must be licensed, but this resulted in the buying up of licenses by wealthy landowners who turned right around and hired sharpshooters to get the job done. One estimate now places the registered kangaroo shooters in Queensland alone at close to 1,800, most of whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn...
...first night last week, a grand total of $2,350,342 passed through the mutuel machines, netting the sovereign State of New York a tidy $235,000 in tax revenues - and moving New York's Republican Congressman Paul A. Fino to sigh: "Horse-racing is no longer the sport of kings - it's the sport of Governors...
...Favorite Sport? tries to capture the spirit of madcap comedy but turns out to be mostly old hat. As an ace sporting-goods salesman at the San Francisco emporium of Abercrombie & Fitch, Rock Hudson plays the kind of city-bred softie who can't bear to eat a fish, much less catch one. But when Publicist Paula Prentiss proposes that he represent Abercrombie's in the Lake Wakapoogee fishing tournament, it's either go to Wakapoogee or lose the job. Braving the enameled wilderness devised by Producer-Director Howard Hawks, Rock soon finds himself...
Racing the Express. Iceboating is the fastest of all winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light...