Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailplaning as a sport grew big in Germany between the world wars. Reason: the treaty of Versailles forbade Germans from building a powered air force; so future Luftwaffe pilots learned to fly in engineless craft. In the process, they perfected soaring techniques and wing designs that have influenced sailplaning all over the world. Today's sailplanes look and act like birds: slim of fuselage, with wings so disproportionately long that the best craft have glide ratios of 40 to 1, or 40 miles of reach for each mile of altitude. World sailplane distance record: 535 miles...
...everyone was eligible: the age of the participants ranged from 7 to 74. "It's the cheapest form of exercise I can get," explained a German housewife of 38. "I need only a pair of gym shoes and shorts to work out. It's a family sport. My husband and children and I all enjoy it together. Now we like it so much we follow gymnastic events all over Europe...
Only twelve months ago, Ralph Boston was virtually unknown in the world of sport-except to the college teams that came up against him at Tennessee State University, an obscure, mostly Negro school for which he was virtually a one-man track team. Then, for last summer's Olympic trials, the lanky (6 ft. 11n., 164 lbs.) athlete from Laurel, Miss.* decided to concentrate on the broad jump. Ever since then, his searching left hand has reached for records, and his power-packed legs have made him the world's finest broad jumper...
...last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like an elegant retriever...
Died. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, 74, baseball's unmatched immortal; of cancer; in Atlanta (see SPORT...