Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the cheers of the aroused Republicans still ringing in their ears, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower went off for a weekend in New York (see SPORT) before slipping back into the busy routine of retirement in Gettysburg. No one believed that the former President could be anything but busy in retirement, despite his announced intention several times to spend his days sitting in a rocking chair...
...lecture tour, and again last March, when he dropped by the White House for a call and a chat. Bobby Kennedy afterward took him on a personally conducted tour of Bull Run. At places and times unknown, he was caught up in the Kennedy clan's family sport. The evidence: interviewed on the BBC last week, he boasted that he was ''one of the few living Britons who understand and enjoy American football'' but conceded that he himself had played "just a couple of games of touch...
...Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters...
These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
They had reason. Ever since the first game was played at Bournemouth, England, in 1876, water polo has ranked as one of the roughest, toughest sports. Played originally by porpoiselike 250 pounders, it was a game in which quarter was never asked, rarely given. Bloody noses and punctured eardrums (from ears boxed underwater) were common. A missing player could usually be found floating face down. Today, although the pace has quickened and rules have been tightened, water polo is still rugged. Says one A.A.U. oldtimer: "This is the only body-contact sport in which the rules forbid body contact...