Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate not quite ready to launch an all-out campaign, Richard Nixon looks for nonpolitical affairs where he can appear as Vice President rather than would-be President. His two top preferences: 1) colleges and universities, which he thinks are too often ignored by Republican politicos; and 2) sports events with their big, happy crowds. Since he presided over the Rose Bowl Game last New Year's Day, he has probably appeared before 200,000 people in nonpolitical events-at a golf writers' dinner in New York, three colleges, an alumni dinner for Harvard and Stanford business schools...
...Aspen's disgruntled inhabitants, he was known contemptuously as "The Baron." But soon ski lodges, hotels, a health center and an amphitheater rose where nothing had been before. The winter, according to Paepcke, could be the time for sport; but the summer was to be reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said...
Thoroughbred racing is described as the sport of kings. But the man who has sent far more winners to U.S. tracks than anyone in history has no blue - or even bluegrass - blood in his veins. He was born on Manhattan's Upper East Side and raised in Brooklyn. He cares less about equine lineage than about spotting a well-shaped colt with a cheap price...
...piped the loudspeakers of Rio's Little Maracana sport stadium one evening last week. From overhead, a glittering crystal Sputnik twirled down, antennas spinning, lights blinking. Spotlights glared as it landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The couple waved, the crowd applauded, and a troupe of animal trainers, tumblers, clowns and acrobats raced into the arena to applaud back. As the Sputnik beeped back into orbit among the rafters, the famed Moscow circus cut loose with its spectacular show for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...
...meantime, with free diving still a new sport, Cousteau urges swimmers to take down an underwater lamp ("The colors that will emerge are incredible"), suggests a descent in open ocean for the more experienced ("Nothing above, nothing below, nothing on either side-it is an astonishing impression"). Beyond that, Skindiver Cousteau does not presume to pinpoint the pleasures of his sport. "What would you advise a baby to do when it is first born?" asks Cousteau. "When a person takes his first dive, he is born to another world...