Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, but the kind of news we seek out varies in the summertime, just as readers' interests change. Schools close, or go on summer schedule; theater becomes straw hat, or old hat; TV repeats itself. But one TIME section increases in interest and importance in the summer: sport...
...everything from H-bomb tests to medicine and music. But there is one side of him that likes to race fast cars, to leave a little money behind at the horse races, and to play golf well enough to appreciate those who play it better. As TIME'S Sport editor since April 1961, he finds that golf and horse racing "are the two sports I like best, and the hardest to write about." He is also convinced from painful experience that "covering a golf tournament is harder than playing...
Three weeks ago, Parmiter wrote our cover story on Jack Nicklaus, the 22-year-old wonder who won the U.S. Open. This week Parmiter chronicles the dramatic comeback of the old master, Arnold Palmer, whose amazing performance in the British Open will be the stuff of sport legends to come. Parmiter, a man of decided opinions, believes 1) that the competition in golf has never been as tough as it is right now. and 2) that Arnold Palmer "is the greatest golfer the world has ever seen...
There is no mistaking Eble's attitude toward the stadium. "To right-thinking men everywhere, college football is and has been from its inception a beastly sport.. college presidents become absolute boobies when they contemplate the glories of their athletic programs." Recruiting is for him the chief crime; and he pats Phi Beta Kappa for being almost the only organization to stand by its principles and refuse to grant new charters to colleges that give disproportionate aid to athletes. But there are signs of a slow change: Hutchins abolished big-time foot-ball at Chicago, Brandeis dropped...
Sailing is one sport in which an athlete is supposed to improve with age. Cornelius Shields, the grand master of U.S. sailing, is 67, and he insists: "I learn something new each day." At 40, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher is practically a prodigy. Yet last week, as the America's Cup 12-meter trials got under way in the wind-rippled waters off Newport, R.I., Mosbacher turned in a performance that would be difficult for anyone to beat. As skipper of Weatherly, a good, but never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against...