Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscar Wilde once called it "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Nationwide polls show that half of the British population would like the sport banned. Yet never has fox hunting had such an avid and devoted horde of admirers. From the vast, hilly estates of Leicestershire to the pit-scarred mining fields of Wales, the peremptory piping of the hunter's horn and cries of "Yu-rt, my lassies, Yu-rt" were everywhere last week. As the annual season began, dukes and duchesses, and workingmen as well, were galloping after the fox. So many thousands of others...
...very important that the listener know what station he is listening to." In addition to a six-note electronic theme that ham mers home the station's call letters in a dozen variations, Siday's package includes a kaleidoscope of sounds devised to orchestrate anything from sport news to traffic reports...
Thunder from the Right. Boxing has been Hugh Benbow's love ever since he left home at 15 with $50 pinned to his underwear. Forty fights later, Lightweight Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...With these rewards, cave exploring will never be a chic sport. But its devotees measure enjoyment in inches...
...many cavers, it's this gruesomely different kind of environment which makes the sport fascinating. In Ward's Cave, N.Y., one of the easiest, there may be as many as sixty people inside at one time, stumbling around each other. As soon as a new cave is discovered, the crowds head...