Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes with newfangled soap; a Swiss cook taught them patiently to prepare Swiss-German food. There are also educators and schoolbooks, lessons in how to use knife and fork and in how to ski, a sport unknown in Tibet. The men have jobs, ranging from digging ditches to carpentry to house painting...
...farmhand for the old Philadelphia Athletics-to play the alleys seriously. Competing in a game that has more active competitors (28 million) than any other in the U.S. and that makes little distinction between amateurs and professionals. Don Carter has compiled a record that is probably unmatched in any sport. He has been voted "Bowler of the Year" five times.He has won the All-Star Tournament four times. He was a member of the crack St. Louis Budweisers bowling team, and he was twice the national doubles titleholder. Carter has won more major tournaments (25) than any other active bowler...
More Than a Rich Sport. This quick action was typical of a newcomer who, since invading England in 1959, has kept Fleet Street jumping. Thomson picked up dozens of newspapers of all sorts, from Scotland's Caithness Courier (circ. 6,000) to England's big Kemsley chain. Editors and publishers goggled at the sight of the gregarious Canuck who told risque stories in a deliberate and successful effort to crack the British reserve, and rode in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac to the subway tube-to be met at the other end by a chauffeur-driven Rolls...
...dying concern. This just plainly is not true. The fact is that most people in athletics admire Harvard's "Athletics For All," and the athletic picture at more and more schools is trending toward the Ivy type: intramural provision for all the students plus, at the top of each sport, an intercollegiate team that grows from and represents the normal student body as contrasted with the big time team which is always composed of a special group financed by athletic money, not educational money...
...standard of top-notch performance in the stadia, but by the question "Does this type of program contribute more or less to the educational process?" Quite obviously it contributes more: because at an ivy college, anyone with reasonable ability and the will to work at a sport can go out for that sport and will be given a chance and some coaching. At any college where top-notch performance is guaranteed continually by "athletic scholarships" (what a contradiction those two words make anyway!) the student body as a whole is automatically excluded from the inter-collegiate program. Leaving aside...