Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued. In 1961 the FCAS said "The circumstances in the Western League seem to us to be on the wrong track, involving generally the heavy recruiting of Canadian players, the use of athletic scholarships, and what appears to be an intensive effort to develop a big-time commercially successful sport...
...Broadway shows and sport events may soon be playing on screens in theaters all over the country-and in color. National General Corp., which owns a chain of West Coast theaters, announced last week that it is equipping 150 of its own theaters and 200 others with General Electric's new "light valve" projector. If Broadway producers and sport promoters sign up as eagerly as National General hopes they will, nationwide theater pay-TV may be a reality within a year...
...Chutes. As every student of World War II knows, sailplaning as a sport grew up in Germany. The Treaty of Versailles forbade Germans to build a powered air force, so future Luftwaffe pilots had to learn to fly in engineless craft. At first, they hedgehopped for short distances along the hillsides, depending on air currents deflected upward by the slopes to keep them aloft. But in 1921, gliding down a slope in the Rhon Mountains, a German airman noticed a flock of storks suddenly shooting upward more than 1,200 ft. without so much as flapping a wing. He turned...
...waves'' of fast-rising air that are found on the lee side of mountain ranges, sailplanes can soar even higher: up to 45,000 ft. Sailplanes are generally safer than powered planes-there is no risk of fire, and landing speeds are lower-but soaring is no sport for the fainthearted. In full view of 1,000 onlookers at Junin, veteran Dutch Pilot Arie Breunissen dived into a ther mal too quickly and watched in horror as the left wing of his fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken craft...
...tears pianos apart with his bare hands, collegiate wreckers use axes, sledge hammers, iron wedges, crowbars and brooms. Working against the clock, the students must batter a piano into pieces small enough to be passed through a hole in a board 20 cm. (7.87 in.) in diameter. The sport got its start at Britain's Derby College of Technology, where the best time was 14 min. 3 sec. Then, at Caltech, members of the Reduction Study Group claimed the piano-demolition championship by crippling a keyboard in 10 min. 44.4 seconds. But records are made to be broken. Last...