Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riot squads arrived. Armed with a walkie-talkie radio, two sport-shirted American C.I.A. men delivered a running commentary on events to headquarters. A monk with a portable loudspeaker repeated: "We have been deceived many times and we no longer have any faith in the regime." Government secret police in civilian clothes yelled back that the Buddhists were being exploited by the Communists...
...Giro d'ltalia and the Vuelta a España. He once set a world record by covering 46,159 km. (about 29 miles) in one hour and he has won the Grand Prix des Nations, a kind of World Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes sports car, outboard motorboat for weekend cruises on the Seine. Success, in fact, has so spoiled Anquetil that he tried to beg out of this month's Tour de France...
...about far-off places, have an incurable travel itch, and pursue exotic and audacious hobbies. And maybe that is why, when our Modern Living department got intrigued by the growing hobby of sky diving, two of the best sources for the story turned out to be at nearby desks. Sport Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum and Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss (whose previous experience in the heavens includes 17 years as TIME'S Religion editor) had decided to try sky diving for themselves. Last week each jumped from a single-engine plane, parachuted 2,500 ft. to earth in 21 minutes...
Though in foreign lands, they invincibly stayed themselves; they also showed an uncanny ability to adapt to other cultures, whether in Latin America, where they concocted a lilting lingua franca known as Spanglish, or Down Under, where they developed a spectacular sport known as Australian Rules, a blend of Gaelic football and rugby...
...publisher's offer with a curt: "I just don't want to write a book." He regards racing as something akin to painting or music-an art, in which perfection is probably impossible but still worth trying for. Sometimes he worries about whether he likes the sport too much for his own good. "I almost wish I could stop enjoying it," he says, "so I could give...