Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chorus of 2,645 singing the opening hymn These Things Shall Be). Harrumphed Switzerland's Otto Mayer, chancellor of the International Olympic Committee: "All this hoopla has little to do with the Olympic spirit, and I've wired the U.S. accordingly." Shrilled Zurich's Sport: "Assigning the Games to Squaw Valley was a big mistake. The committee fell for the big bluff of smart American businessmen...
...Vanity & Sport. Grinding the tiny, feather-light plastic lenses is technically so difficult that eye practitioners do not attempt it themselves, leave it to specially equipped laboratories. These labs do not sell directly to the public, so they remain unknown, though Chicago's Plastic Contact Lens Co., the giant in the field, has made more than 4,000,000 pairs in ten years. Average price to ophthalmologists and optometrists: $50 to $60 a pair. After fair charges for examinations, fittings and corrections, the practitioner may collect $150 to $300 from an average patient. Those with special problems must expect...
...effort, with a broad hint that it was amateurish. Abed with flu. Osborne grumped unsportingly: "Television is to the theater what etching is to oils." Then word leaked that still another producer had bounced the same script. Snarled Osborne: "What was a private negotiation has now become a public sport. I shall withdraw it.'' But he did not have to; he already had it back...
...California's San Quentin, Convict-Author Caryl (Cell 2455, Death Row) Chessman, 38, and a score of other condemned men gathered in their recreation room to watch the Rose Bowl football game (see SPORT) on television. Next thing guards knew, Kidnaper-Rapist Chessman and several other cons were pummeling one of their number who, even on death row, is a pariah to his fellow prisoners. By the time the brawl was stopped, the TV set lay smashed on the floor. Chessman, who has a date with the gas chamber in mid-February (his eighth such appointment...
...refraining from competition in the intercollegiate quiz sport "College Bowl" (Channel 5, 5:30-6 p.m. Sundays), Harvard may be hiding its intellectual lights under a bushel-basket; solid achievement, such as our Rhodes Scholarship record, cannot hope to stagger the public so smartly as the sight of the bright young flash gleaming out cultural answers over...