Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surrounding seas and inland lakes of the U.S. are the world's stronghold of skindiving. Since World War II, U.S. swimmers have created a mass sport out of a pastime that once belonged to an adventuresome few. This week some 1,000,000 dedicated U.S. skindivers are getting ready for their biggest year. They are pro halfbacks, harried housewives, gawky teenagers. Detroit tycoons, retired schoolmarms sunning in Miami. For skindiving has the great virtue of letting each swimmer make his own terms with the deep. With no need to compete or excel, the skindiver can choose...
...fact, few teams have ever dominated their sport the way the Boston Celtics rule pro basketball. Going into this week's N.B.A. playoffs, they are top-heavy favorites to defend their league championship, are winning nearly four out of every five games. With two games still to play, the proud Celtics have already toted up 57 victories, five more than the league record they themselves set last year...
...months the athletic directors of the Midwest's Big Ten, the nation's toughest conference across the board, have feuded with faculties determined to tone down the heavy emphasis on sports. Last week faculty representatives voted to cancel the 14-year pact with the Rose Bowl (where Big Ten teams won twelve times). In an apparent fit of petulance, the athletic directors then recommended abolishing all post-season competition in all sports, including the prestigious N.C.A.A. championships in basketball, swimming and track. The faculty representatives promptly supported the proposal. If finally ratified by the individual universities...
Nothing in the world of sport is more ephemeral than the careers of champion girl swimmers. No sooner do the girls reach their peak at around 18 than they get interested in careers or marriage, and become bored with thrashing through a chlorine-tanged pool. But in Sydney last week, Aussie Veteran Dawn Fraser staged one of the sport's great performances. Her age: an advanced...
...plastic Head skis. The finest skis are traditionally made by European craftsmen, who have practiced the art for years, and in his field Howard Head, 45, is a Johnny-come-lately. The first time Head, a Harvard graduate ('36), went skiing was in 1946. He liked the sport but not the skis. An aircraft draftsman, Head decided that light and strong aluminum should be as good for skis as for planes. He proved his point by becoming the first manufacturer to sell metal skis in quantity. Head announced that his Baltimore-based Head Ski Co. Inc. this season will...