Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are increasing complaints that the horses are being run to death. Says James C. Brady, chairman of the New York Racing Association: "There could be a point of no return here. If racing is to be gouged just for state income, the sport could be killed." Says a New York racing official: "If it's money they want from pari-mutuels, why don't they just run a bunch of mice around a track twelve months a year?" Even a few bettors gripe. Says one: "I don't care what the longer season does to horses...
...accompaniment of cigarette smoke and endless small cups of coffee. Nasser sat in on the negotiations, serenely confident that what finally emerged would be what he wanted. At 45, Nasser's hair has greyed at the temples, and he has given up tennis for the less demanding sport of swimming. He appears as physically fit as ever and retains his old nervous habits of jiggling his leg while sitting, and of smoking five packs of L. & M.s a day; like most Egyptians, he cannot stand the local brands. He still works twelve and 18 hours at a clip...
Harold S. Ulen, Harvard's head swimming coach from 1929 to 1959, received the highest award given by the National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Coaches Association last night. The sixth recipient of the award, Ulen was cited for his outstanding contributions to the development of swimming as a competitive sport at schools and colleges in the U.S. In his 30 years at Harvard, Ulen's teams won a total of 261 dual meets while losing only...
...Harvard coach's relations with his team are further hampered by his occasional questionable basketball strategy. No one doubts his knowledge of the sport but he appears hard-pressed to put his information and book-learning into effective practice...
...high priestess. Today's masters are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe and Valenti, and their tight little world is tense with competition: vassal harpsichordists nourish the strain by running joyously to one master with rumors of another's poor recital. Valenti has little taste for this suspicious sport; he would, if anything, prefer to withdraw...