Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...habit of list making at this season is also a favorite pastime in sport. The A.P., the U.P.I., and a host of others compile football All-Americas. Some years ago, determined not to add just one more list to the confusion, TIME devised another kind of All-America. We went around to the professional scouts, who on sunny or wintry Saturdays put a cold, calm eye on college football teams, looking for players they are prepared to invest in. TIME's pro-picked All-America ran in our Dec. 1 issue. Last week the professionals of the National...
...stand by! You could be in the next Cabinet! If you'd come from Harvard, you'd be in tomorrow!" With a bow to the honor guest at the head table, the "quarterback of the Hyannisport All-Stars," Hope quipped: "Listen, touch football is not a sissy sport. Up there in Hyannisport, roughing the passer is a federal rap." Finally he had some news of a fellow Californian: "Nixon couldn't be here-he's running for Governor. He'll campaign on radio...
...Anton Geesink fighting Japan's smaller (6 ft. 1 in. 198 lbs.) Koji Sone, much more than the judo (literally, "gentle way'') championship of the world was at stake. This was a challenge to Japan's dominance over her own national sport, and it was the ultimate test of one of the oldest traditions of judo: the wistful idea that a well-trained judoist can whip a larger opponent in hand-to-hand combat...
Harvard outshot St. Nick's 36-16. Eager to prove their superiority in some phase of the sport, St. Nicholas outpointed the Crimson in penalty minutes...
...Thomson soon gave evidence that he was much more than just a rich sport. He pruned out two sensational papers, has beefed up the austere Sunday Times without impairing its stateliness. Under Thomson, the Sunday Times circulation has risen nearly 140,000 to 1,022.913-sending it far ahead of Britain's other big quality Sunday paper, the Observer (727,964). Eventually, Thomson intends to convert the Sunday Time?, into something resembling the hefty Sunday papers that hit U.S. front porches. Early next year, for example, the paper will add a 4O-page, four-color illustrated magazine...