Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From coast to coast, on asphalt playgrounds, backyard lawns, city streets, municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according...
...traveling with a team, one meets alumni who are fanatically interested in athletics. One is told such things as, "Why don't you drop up and see So-and-So sometime? I got him in here on the assumption that he would go out for such-and-such a sport, but he hasn't. Maybe if you talked to him..." Why is a coach any worse than an alumnus with this attitude...
...tank at 14? a gallon. Vacation? If bored with the local 18-hole golf course (family membership: $40 a year), try a pleasant few days skiing at Garmisch or Berchtesgaden, where a private room-and-bath is priced at $1.25 a night. Instruction and equipment for nearly any sport costs, as a military brochure puts it, "next to nothing." Sick? The 350-bed Wiesbaden U.S.A.F. hospital sends no bills to any patients-except for maternity care, which costs...
...Park & Hagna Inc.. the bean's maker. People also serve Dilly Beans in martinis, salads, sandwiches, cream cheese and beef Stroganoff-and have discovered that poodles love them. Eaten right from the jar, the spicy, nonfattening (1.5 calories each) green beans have inspired a new party sport: watching the expression of a novice trying his first...
...prophets of doom ignored the fact that Bruce Munro is one of the best coaches, in any sport, in the entire Ivy League. Munro kept quiet about his team's chanced before the season began, but it was clear that he was not doing to relinquish his twice-won Ivy title without a struggle...