Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longest time, The Game (that's charades, to non-swells) has been the In sport at society dos. But Florida's best-dressed Jean Harvey Vanderbilt has a new one, a sort of pin-the-tag-on-the-horsy. "Naming a yearling can be a wonderful icebreaker," says the wife of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And they already have quite a collection of monikers for their just-named two-year-olds. There's Kiss of Death, a daughter of Femme Fatale, Gone Goose, by Crafty Admiral out of Sitting Duck, and Shakedown Cruise, by Sailor...
McDermott's victory was not just surprising; it was incredible. In Russia, sport is not just a leisure-time activity; it is a natural resource like uranium-and hang the cost of mining. A pair of top-quality speed skates costs only $12 (v. $75 in the U.S.), and there are 13 speed skating rinks in Moscow alone. Champions like Grishin and Lidia Skoblikova are "amateurs" mainly because there are no professionals in Russia. Grishin is an officer in the Red army, and Skoblikova is a schoolteacher who finds time for some seven hours of practice every day. Even...
...mystery of U.S. sport is what makes a curve ball curve. No. 2 is the mercurial career of High Jumper John Thomas. A prodigy at 17, he was a world record holder at 18, a has-been at 19, and now, at 22, he is a sensation all over again. Last week, at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, while runners pounded around the board track and an off-key band blared I Could Have Danced All Night, Thomas effortlessly leaped 7 ft. 21 in. on his first try and broke the Millrose Games record of Russia's Valery...
...plan, the Fabbris decided to turn out books that sell like magazines. Their first offering, a four-volume encyclopedia issued in 48 weekly installments at 350 each, has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted 3,000,000 customers. The Fabbris followed up with serialized encyclopedias of science, sport, fairy tales and the arts, prepared by a staff of 600 writers, artists and specialists...
Died. Barbara Keith, 42, Hartford, Conn., widowed grandmother of ten, a sport parachutist and balloon enthusiast who once said, "I go up in a balloon because it's living. Who wants to sit home and knit an afghan when you can sit suspended under a 40-foot bag and be part of the wind?"; by drowning, when her hot-air balloon drifted off course during a race from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California coast, was found 42 hours later...