Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boxing world was once aghast to discover that Gene Tunney occasionally read books. So there is no telling how much damage Italy's Giovanni Benvenuti, 29, may do to the image of the sport. Imagine a prizefighter who looks like a Beatle, reads Voltaire, listens to Chopin, and trains on vintage wine. Actually, "Nino" Benvenuti never got past high school in his native Trieste, and something may be lost in the translation, since he speaks only Italian. But his interpreter at least uses words like "impetus" and "counterproductive," and ascribes to Nino such thoughtful pronouncements as "literature...
...SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. A highly promising new novelist tells in a new way that oldest of stories: boy meets girl. Cool, compelling and brilliantly written...
There is something sad about the death of a dynasty-even one as tyrannical as the Boston Celtics. For most of a decade the Celtics have utterly dominated pro basketball, winning nine National Basketball Association championships and providing the sport with many of its brightest stars: Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman, Tommy Heinsohn, Sam Jones, Bill Russell. It all ended last week when the Philadelphia 76ers rudely knocked the Celtics from the throne, crushing them four games to one in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division playoffs...
...horsemen complain that New York State benefits more from racing than any other state in the U.S.-while doing less to encourage the sport. Out of every dollar that passes through the parimutuel windows at Aqueduct and Saratoga, 100 goes to the state, and 50 to the tracks for operating expenses and purses. The state's cut last year came to $66 million; at the tracks, $15 million was available for purses after expenses. Much of that had to be allotted to occasional (some 90 per year) high-priced stakes races to which the track contributes anywhere from...
...SPORT AND A PASTIME by James Salter. 191 pages. Doub/eday...