Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water-skiing competition falls into three categories: slalom, jumping, and tricks. Rapidly developing technique in each of the three events and the keen rivalry which has accompanied the growing popularity of the sport have forced increasing specialization...
Most of the million visitors who crowd into Ocean City, Md., each summer go there to rest, and for them miniature golf counts as a strenuous sport. But Ocean City also lures a hardier type: the sport fisherman. Hotel phone operators spot him easily: he is the fel low who asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat...
...surf bums, the peroxided boys and girls who at first gave surfing a bad name-and not only because of their outlandish hairdos. Throbbing to guitars at midnight twist parties, they were fond of nudity and occasional ransacking of beach homes. But slowly the genuine challenge of the sport attracted a better ilk, and bit by bit an entire subculture emerged...
...Indoor Sport, by Jack Perry, concerns a domestic crisis in the lives of a tennis star (Shari Lewis) and a Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent (Darren McGavin). McGavin's performance won praise, but the play itself is a long and somewhat clumsy cliché. Fayetteville, N.Y.; Falmouth, Mass.; Westport, Conn...
...enthusiastically endorses the change in sailing from a seacoast sport dom inated by yacht clubs and big-boat own ers to a family hobby and national pas time. Last year, of 15,000 boats sold in the U.S., 80% were less than 20 ft. long and one-third were destined for fresh water launching. Only 10% of their new owners intend to race them. "The rest are weekend sailors who aren't out to break any speed records," says O'Day. "This is the market I decided to go after...