Word: sport
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...After reading your article, my parents offered to buy me a car in return for the surrender of my bike. I have chosen to reduce the probability of dying on the roads by four-fifths, and to join the ranks of the merry millions who consider it good sport to pick off the two-wheeled buffs. I sleep a little better each night knowing that I'm now doing the gunning...
Above all, L'Équipe is thorough. To cover the World Cup soccer tournament, which ended last week in England (see SPORT), the paper sent over 13 reporters, three cartoonists and four photographers. When U.S. Miler Jim Ryun recently set a new world record in Berkeley, Calif., L'Équipe ran his picture on the front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe...
...team is currently getting clobbered by the West Indies. Still, England oscillates. The cause of the excitement is an ugly, 12-in.-high trophy known as the World Cup and symbolic of supremacy in soccer - a game that seems tame to Americans, but still is the most popular spectator sport on earth. In London last week, after years of trying, England finally won the World Cup by defeating West Germany...
Roller's decision, said the court, was contradictory and "inconsistent." Baseball might be a monopoly, but it is a nationwide monopoly; therefore Wisconsin is "powerless" to make the sport subject to its state antitrust law. Besides, continued the Supreme Court, to order the Braves back from Atlanta would be to correct one ill with another: "such an outcome would maintain a monopoly at the expense of Atlanta...
Italians were equally bitter when their highly rated team was knocked out of the race by the tournament's lowest-rated contenders, the North Koreans. Rome's Corriere Dello Sport ran a one-word headline: SHAME! In Parliament, a neo-Fascist deputy pointed to Italy's defeat as the sign that a new Duce was needed to rescue the nation's fading honor...