Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot of Lemon Squash. Even more far-reaching-though more subtle-is the social revolution overtaking Saudi Arabia. Many Saudi women now sport lipstick, eye shadow and slacks under their shapeless black shrouds and dark veils. Their daughters are going to school for the first time. Any student -male or female-who can win admission to a foreign university receives full expenses and a generous living allowance. Of his own eight sons, Feisal has sent the youngest seven abroad for schooling, including his bright, second oldest son Prince Mohamed bin Feisal, 29, the country's first royal prince ever...
...best-kept secret in sport - outside of, possibly, Sandy Koufax's unlisted phone number. For twelve weeks, behind a continuing barrage of public name-calling, the U.S.'s two warring pro-football leagues had been quietly negotiating a peace. Last week came the announcement: the National and American leagues had agreed to 1) kiss and make up, 2) hold a common player draft, 3) stage an annual "world-championship" play-off game starting next winter, and 4) merge in 1970 into a single, 28-team league...
...when a kid who doesn't know beans about pro football but makes twice as much money as you do tells you to go to hell?" Club owners began to panic. "We were getting near financial suicide," says N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle. And fans grew disgusted. "The whole sport," says Rozelle, "was beginning to look pretty shabby...
Swimming trends are the same. In the past five years, 10 sophomores have failed to win letters again as juniors. For about eight years, Coach Brooks says, senior participation has dropped. "The sport takes tremendous drive and can become your master," says Brooks. "I understand when a boy finally finds the pressure too much...
...sport which enlists almost total dedication is crew, in which Parker has developed an unsurpassed tradition. There have been as many as eight seniors among nine letter winners and as few as two, but there never have been underclass letter winners one year who don't return the next season...