Word: sport
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...short, happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
...Sport, which told about the kid-studded, American League$#151;leading Baltimore Orioles last week, now turns to the National League-leading Pittsburgh Pirates, whose manager, Danny Murtaugh, must cope with a grab bag of wildly assorted talents and temperaments...
Swimming has always been the sport of the prodigy, from the Japanese teenagers who won in the 1932 Olympics to Australia's 17-year-old John Konrads, holder of world records from 220 to 1,650 yds. Last week it was clear that the U.S. could claim its own prodigy, who, among swimming's sprinters, may be the most prodigious ever. Steve Clark, a 16-year-old Los Altos, Calif. high school junior with a skintight crewcut and an adolescent's gangling frame of 5 ft. 11 in., 147 Ibs., flashed through the 100-meter free style...
...whole story, as seen through the eyes of Paolino di Alba, a precocious 13-year-old. To Paolino, poverty is spelled ATLAS and HERCULES, the words on the cement bags his mother uses for diapers. Mama is patient, pious, and always pregnant. Papa is a bricklayer and a sport who feels a cut above the other paesanos. He flaunts a blonde, green-eyed "American" mistress named Delia with whom he wins dance contests at the local vaudeville palace...
...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...