Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great, internationally known newspapers"- specifically the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The Trib,* as he read it, was entirely unworthy of its once lofty position." In its editorials (as in almost every other important part of the paper, except its sport pages, Eugenia Sheppard and its team of columnists) the Herald Tribune has to all intents and purposes abdicated. It has ceased to be a newspaper in anything but name...
...deep student of the sport could devote hours to a review of the games which have been played since Portfolio's yesterday, merely to note the rise and fall of the passing game...
Naturally, it was an intrinsic factor in the early days of the sport. Then it fell into gradual disease an the rushing game advanced...
...requires only a student license to fly, and many beginners start by "kiting"-being dragged behind a car on a long cable while they gently try takeoffs and maneuvering. "There's almost no danger in this sport," maintains Ken Brock, founder of the Southern California chapter. "Most airplane crashes occur on takeoff or landing. But with gyrocopters you go only 20 to 30 m.p.h. on takeoff, and land at about zero to 5 m.p.h...
...brow over the quaint proposition that the colony of international spies quartered in Lisbon has nothing better to do than chase around trying to filch $5,000,000 worth of smuggled industrial diamonds. Cast as a standard case of mistaken identity, Garner eludes more than 20 villains who sport accents to match their allegiances. Helping along from crisis to crisis, with defused dialogue for weaponry, are Tony Franciosa as a would-be smuggler, Sandra Dee as an addled tourist, and Robert Coote as a British embassy chap...