Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hockey is his first sport, and Gurry is representative of the sparkling sophomore unit--Jack Turco, Terry Flaman, Ron Mark and George McManama--which can boost Harvard higher in the ECAC during the next two years...
...necessarily who won or lost a particular contest, but how and why they came to be winners or losers and what it all means to the players and to the game. That, in sum, is our philosophy of how we should cover sports. And so our Sport team, headed by Senior Editor George G. Daniels, pushes aside the routine and instead seeks out insights that will fit stories into the larger context of what sports have to do with life...
...cover subject, Hockey Superstar Bobby Hull, observing the man at home, in his car, on the rink, at work on radio commercials, in his lawyer's office, in a bar, signing autographs in a barbershop. Part of the reporting and most of the in-house research for Sport is done by Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum, who is often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language is so terrible and these men would be embarrassed to have a girl hear...
...heartbroken Oakland crowd. But it was a groan almost equally mixed with cheers. If their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar...
UNTIL yesterday, George Romney had displayed no greater prowess in the art of presidential politics than in the sport of bowling. Not only was Romney's curious blend of the rugged handshake and the brainwash proving ineffective, but among its indirect consequences loomed the increasing inevitability of Richard Nixon. Whether Romney's withdrawal comes in time, whether his staunch supporter Nelson Rockefeller will jump promptly into the breach, and whether Rockefeller, beyond offering hope to the Republican Party, offers anything to the country at large, remains to be seen. But whatever the developments, Governor Romney's decision stands...