Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whup 'em or Weep. Most of that money was gouged from the hard-baked Western soil in which the sport has its roots. A cross between the pioneer plow horse and the Mexican mustang, the quarter horse was bred for the short bursts of speed needed to herd cattle. To fill the lonesome hours, cowpokes began match-racing for payday stakes and, as one oldtimer put it, "if you couldn't whup the guy you beat, you didn't get your money." Before long, horsemen were organizing races at state and county fairs across the West. Whole...
...baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often as five times a week, won as many as 100 games a year. Once he fired...
...shame that Karen will not be in Mexico City to keep her records afloat. Someone else is likely to sink them. In no other sport do records fall so fast. Last year no fewer than 37 world marks were broken, while only 16 track records were improved. In ten years, two full seconds have been lopped off the 100-meter freestyle record. In track the comparable 400-meter dash mark has dropped only...
...course, there is no other sport in which athletes are officially competing by their eighth birthday. With the phenomenal growth of age-group swimming, there are now some 3,000 clubs tutoring upwards of 275,000 water babies. Starting at the age of six or seven, promising youngsters paddle more than two miles a day to build themselves into racing form. Soon they are competing in club aquacades against others their own age in hopes of winning an A.A.U. badge and national recognition. By the time they are twelve, today's swimmers are accomplished veterans, harder of limb, sounder...
Other models are in for smaller changes (except for slow-selling convertibles, which will be dropped altogether). The intermediate-size Rebel will sport little new styling, though its sales have been off by 23% during a year in which A.M.C.'s overall performance has shown modest improvement (233,000 cars so far, v. 207,000 in 1967). Much of the success has been due to the doughty American, which Chairman Roy M. Chapin decided to promote as a competitor to small foreign imports. So far, sales are slightly ahead of the 1967 pace -not bad for a car whose...