Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hashbury's pads are something else. Most of them sport gaudily painted doors and rainbow window shades; in one window near the Drogstore is a gigantic copy of a canned-fruit ad that, in red, green and gold, proclaims "Del Monte Boobs." Within The Hashbury circulate more than 25 undercover narcotics agents, who arrest an average of 20 hippies a week, usually for possession of marijuana. Busted hippies in turn come back under orders to inform on their suppliers, but the drug sources are so varied and elusive that the "narco" squad has yet to pin down any major...
...reaction to the "summies" is not difficult to understand. Certainly not all the girls are dumb--Wellesley sends probably the largest contingent other than Radcliffe--and not all of them, tease there hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your won kind, so you don't feel terribly close...
...caustic old joke is fast losing its bite. True, top amateur tennis players still make a comfortable living-up to $1,000 per tournament in "expense money"-but few any longer refuse to turn pro on the grounds that "I can't afford to." Long a disorganized gypsy sport, pro tennis finally has gone big time. In 1964, the "pro tour" consisted of only eight tournaments worth a total of $80,000 in prize money; this year the pros will play 42 tournaments in the U.S. and abroad, and $600,000 is up for grabs. If he plays...
...horse racing is the sport of kings, Carlos Manuel de Ycaza, 29, is the Black Knight...
...interference" in a previous claiming race at Aqueduct, gave Ycaza a total of 50 days of enforced vacation since April. But more than one racing expert thought Ycaza's punishment was too light. Mused Morning Telegraph Correspondent Charles Hatton: "One wonders when an erring athlete in this sport is to be considered incorrigible...