Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Missouri Ozarks, a real vigorous sport is floatin': people get on what they call "John" boats and just float. This show is a three-day float on the Current River, where the Federal Government wants to create a national park...
...become part of the Wall, is now a standard West Berlin tourist attraction. So are the partsof the Wall that stretch through the working-class districts of Wedding and Neukölln, whose fiercely independent inhabitants can sometimes be seen lobbing rocks at the Reds for summer evening sport...
What is America's favorite outdoor sport? The answer, from a report to the President and Congress just released by the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission: taking a drive in the car. Second favorite sport: walking. Least popular of 24 activities surveyed: skiing...
...Daughter of Los Angeles Ear Surgeon Howard Payne House, towheaded Carolyn is almost blind in her left eye (a congenital defect) and wears a contact lens in her right eye. But her eye trouble has never hampered her swimming-or kept her from taking a crack at any other sport that struck her tomboy's fancy. "At seven," says her brother Ken, 22, "she could swim three laps of the family pool underwater without coming up for air. At eight, she played center for both of our neighborhood football teams. She'd center for our team...
...signalman's glass swept the horizon. "I regret to report," came the halting reply, "that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some sort of "infernal machine." In the bitterness of that moment, one of sport's great and enduring contests was born: the America's Cup became a symbol of national pride, national purpose-and, as it turned out, national frustration. The British tried 15 times to win the cup, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts cost perhaps $25 million, and all met with...