Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granaderos, or riot police, and prep-school students affiliated with the 90,000-student National University. As the scrap spilled into the streets, the students directed their anger toward the traditionally revered personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting the upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment. For his part, dedicated, aloof President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz grimly vowed "to do whatever is our duty, however far we are obliged to go," to protect his country's good name and, presumably, the Olympics tourist trade. Fortnight ago, he ordered the army...
Since they owe so much to sumo, it is no wonder that the Japanese are wild about the sport-even though it has lost some of its appeal since the good old days of 2,000 years ago when wrestlers fought to the death. Now they only try to throw an opponent down or force him outside a 15-ft. ring. To most foreigners, the spectacle of two near-naked, 300-lb. behemoths locked in a sweaty embrace, tugging mightily at each other's loincloths and grunting like rhinoceri, is about as exciting as a traffic jam. That makes...
...ghosts. The movie Rosemary's Baby is both demonological and boxoffice. Miniskirted suburban matrons cast the I Ching or shuffle tarot cards before setting dates for dinner parties. Hippies, with their drug-sensitized yen for magic, are perhaps the prime movers behind the phenomenon. Not only do they sport beads and amulets that have supposed magical powers; they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman and his crew attempted to levitate the Pentagon last October-but much of the new concern with the arcane...
...ceremonies, so reminiscent of the dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
...winning ways of McLain and his teammates were no less pleasant for Cover Writer Charles Parmiter and Senior Editor George Daniels. Sport figures have a way of stumbling embarrassingly just as a big story is going to press. Denny McLain and the Tigers never gave the TIME Sport staff a moment's worry...