Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hockey, a sport of loose pucks, flying sticks, and difficult manuvers, is basically frustrating to the participant, especially when his team is on the short end of the scoreboard. It is not surprising that the last major brawl during a Harvard hockey game occurred during a 7-2 loss to Toronto in the 1959 Christmas Tournament, or that Brown's Bill McSween drew a suspension last week from Coach John Fullerton for fighting during a 4-1 losing effort against Cornell...
Conflicts are bound to break out occasionally during hockey games. Secondary schools protect the sport by an automatic one-game suspension for any participant in a fight; colleges believe the sport is sufficiently clean to make such a rigid rule unnecessary. It is the occasional disciplinary action, such as Weiland's voluntary decision, which allows the colleges to follow this policy...
Skiers considered themselves blood brothers, shared racing wax and car racks, casually draped parkas over pine boughs by the trail, and stacked their skis in the nearest snowdrift. Today, all that has changed. With 4,000,000 enthusiasts crowding into 1,200 ski areas, the sport's open-hearth atmosphere has taken on a decided chill...
Losing Their Heads. Many of the sport's new "diesel set" (those who ar rive by bus) are untutored novices whom experienced skiers drive for hours to avoid. The newcomers elbow their way into lift lines, ignore ski-patrol warnings,, snowplow into middle-aged ladies. If their etiquette is lamentable on the slopes, their ethics at the bottom are worse. "Anything gets stolen around here that's not tied down," says Alex Gushing, developer of Squaw Valley...
Wrap-Around Masts. For those who were lucky enough to have booked early, there is deer and jaguar hunting in the jungles nearby, marlin off the coast, and for jaded water-skiers the sport called "water-parachuting," in which a skier, hanging onto a rope behind a speedboat, is lifted into the air a hundred feet or so by a special parachute, then is cut loose to settle gently into the water again. And for all, from morning till night, there is the sun. When it sets, there are the parties, two and often three a night. They begin late...