Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME deserves an Emmy. Television is part Show Business, but it is also part Press, Business, Science, Education, Sport. Art-and much more. By creating a separate Television section [Oct. 13], TIME recognizes television's compelling impact and encourages the medium to ever higher standards of service to the public...
Defense acquired a brutal glamor in the sport of pro football a decade ago, but Harvard's version over the same years has remained an anonymity. Think of the Crimson defenders and who stands out? There is no Sam Huff riding down the enemy's key runner, no Big Daddy Lipscomb flattening the quarterback, no Erich Barnes crawling inside receivers' shirts. And yet,-over the last 24 games, Harvard has held its opponents to 7.2 points a game, an average that would make Vince Lombardi green with envy...
...strong was his love for the sport that last summer he persuaded his brown-haired bride Rickie, 22, to share it with him. Her first jump was perfect, though she laughed about landing in a mud puddle. The second time up, last August, she left the plane in a bad body position-back arched toward the ground. Rickie became entangled in her main chute lines, her reserve chute snarled and, as John Wasik watched from the ground, she fell to her death...
...like to talk about the rubber they burn when drifting through a chicane. A steeplechase rider will verbally rebreak every bone in his body at the drop of a crop. But none of those dangers can hold a Band-Aid to the ones experienced routinely by the madmen of sporting masochism: racing pilots. Whipping airplanes around pylons mere yards above the deck is a sport so risky that it all but disappeared from the U.S. scene after famed Flyer Bill Odom crashed to his death in 1949. Since 1964 it has come roaring back...
...Federal Aviation Administration is inclined to be permissive. "This is a free country," explains FAA Inspector Jim Donathan. "Guys can break their necks if they want to. Our job is to be sure they don't kill somebody on the ground." Still, accidents happen, particularly in the hairy sport of pylon racing. While cutting a tight turn around a 55-ft.-high pylon, a plane may pull up to six G.s even as it is being subjected to severe turbulence from the prop wash of competitors. The results can be catastrophic. While testing his homemade racer at Fort Worth...