Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed in sport shirt and slacks, not a prisoner's uniform. "I have not been mistreated, and the police behavior toward me has been very good...
...hippie-run, Haight-Ashbury Switchboard (3873575) not only helps hippies with information and advice about food, lodging and the draft, but also passes dozens of messages from distraught parents along the grapevine every day. Poignant parental pleas appear in the classified ads of underground newspapers, and major hippie hangouts sport bulletin boards crammed with personal messages...
...much. For a starter, there is the scoring system, in which 1) "zero" for some reason is "love," 2) one point counts as ten, or 15, or merely "advantage," and 3) a "set" may be six games or go on forever. And then there is the hypocrisy of a sport in which amateurs refuse to turn pro, because that could mean taking a cut in salary...
...South's mountainous "white-lightning trails." Richard Petty, who has been racing for money ever since he turned 21, belongs to the new school: the cool, engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport's indecorous beginnings. "Why don't people just forget about all that?" complains Petty, who answers to no nicknames ("If my mother wanted me called Dick, she would have named me Dick"), neither smokes nor drinks, shuns sportswriters, photographers and auto graph seekers, and insists: "If there...
...feeds down deep, and then when the mood strikes him, rises to the surface for a snooze in the sun, never dreaming that anyone would dare commit lese majeste. Commercial "stick" boats run right up to the basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more...