Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tension mounted all Saturday night as guitar-thrumming youths became "blocked," their term for getting high on goofballs. Because Mods sport elaborate hairdos and often tart themselves up with eye shadow and transparent lipstick, they are sneered at by the Rockers. Margate was the Mods' big chance to assert their virility. At dawn on Sunday, armed with ripped-off legs from beach chairs, stone-hurling Mods charged their rivals, injuring two policemen who tried to intervene. As police reinforcements poured in, the battle surged to and fro along the beach, then spread into Margate's streets. Two youths...
...OCEAN REEF CLUB, with 1,800 acres and a 3,000-ft. landing strip on Florida's Key Largo about 15 minutes' flight from Miami, is one of the many sport resorts in the east coast's southern waters that are encouraging fly-in visitors. "We're trying to get more of the rendezvous business," says Manager Robert Trier. "Like a club from Pompano that flew in recently, had breakfast with us and took off again...
Monopolies tend to dull with age, and sporting monopolies are hardly sport at all. The Yankees, for all their skills, team" are with the now fans. New But York's there is "second one ancient monopoly that only grows more exciting with the years. That is the U.S. hold on the America's Cup - symbol of international supremacy in yachting. By the end of this summer, a doughty group of British yachtsmen will have spent close to $600,000 in an attempt to remove the ungainly, Victorian cup from its accustomed place of honor in the New York...
...test the tires and to reinforce its image, Dunlop eagerly participates in auto racing. Every world championship Grand Prix winner since 1959 has worn Dunlops; the Indianapolis Lotus of Current Champion Jim Clark (see SPORT) is similarly equipped...
Quite apart from their moral and spiritual indifference, people who make suicide a spectator sport may be charged with a serious crime. The police, who busied themselves with trying to move the mobs back, were apparently unaware of it, but New York State has two highly relevant laws. Section 2304 of the state penal law says: "A person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking the latter's life, is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree." Section 2305 adds that incitement is a felony ever if the would-be suicide survives...