Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That solution is probably far too drastic. Some 20 million Americans are hunters, and though accidents kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
...GAME (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). NBC News explores the exciting, but expensive sport of art collecting. J. Paul Getty, one of the richest and most successful of all collectors, tells how the game is won-while Texas Oilman Algur Meadows, victim of one of the greatest art frauds in history, explains how easy it is to lose. Correspondents Edwin Newman and Aline Saarinen report from art centers in the U.S. and abroad...
...Omaha tournament has an aura of big-time college sports. There are athletic power houses here like Southern California, which it is hard to imagine Harvard playing in any sport, especially one so basic as baseball. Scouts from every major-league team are scattered through the box seats filling out elaborate form charts for each game...
...campaign, and the impulses he stimulated will have an immediate effect on American political life. On the national level, where his urgent voice and prod will be most sorely missed, the prognosis is tragically dim. Almost as depressing, the nation has been cut off from perhaps its most educational sport--watching and listening to the noisest, most enterprising U.S. Senator since George Norris...
...Robert Kennedy was really a good deal more than a healthy spectator sport, more than a major reformist influence in American society, more than a sympathetic, concerned friend, even more than what Jack Paar called "the most beautiful man I ever knew." In a tragic historical sense, Robert Kennedy was one of the few, and surely the most effective of America's political leaders who liberated themselves from the strangling moralisms of the 1950s. Bob Kennedy got over Communist watching, shucked the blinders of Cold War interventionism, and found ghetto residents more enlightening Congressional witnesses than labor racketeers. Sometime...