Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Cup-a buxom, foot-tall lady hefting an octagonal bowl on her shoulders-is probably the world's least artistic trophy. Without a doubt, it is the most coveted. For the unlovely lady is symbolic of supremacy in the world's most popular sport, football-or soccer, as it is known in the U.S. This week, as the teams move into the final contests for the World Cup, the world is gripped by perhaps the most severe case of football fever in history...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. In a documentary that captures the appeal of a dangerous and dazzling sport, two skillful young surfers search for the perfect wave on a round-the-world tour...
Dressed in Army fatigues and sporting a ten-day growth of beard, he looked more like a Cuban revolutionary than the best running back in pro football. He sounded pretty revolutionary too. "I want," said James Nathaniel Brown, 30, "to have a hand in the struggle that is going on in our country." Thus Jim Brown (TIME cover, Nov. 26), fullback of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns and the biggest ground gainer (12,312 yds. over nine seasons) in the history of pro football, announced his retirement from the sport that made him famous...
Died. Chuck Thompson, 54, ace speedboat racer who, in 30 years of piloting everything from outboards to 200-m.p.h., unlimited-class hydroplanes, had copped just about every prize in the sport except the biggest-the Detroit Gold Cup; of a crushed chest following the disintegration of his hydroplane while jockeying for position at 160 m.p.h. in the 58th Gold Cup race on the Detroit River, thus becoming the fourth hydroplaner to die in competition in two weeks...
...magazine which will sport a cover graced with the lovely lines of Terre Packer (Playmates of November, 1964) arrayed in the Lampoon's somewhat modified Fester costume, stands to make a clear profit of $100,000 if there is a complete sell...