Word: sportingly
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Three years ago, TIME devoted a special issue (March 20, 1972) to the sometimes painful emergence of "The New American Woman." This week we follow up with a report on women's advances in politics, business, sport and the professions (see THE SEXES). Planned by Senior Editor Ruth Brine, the story draws on research done mainly by TIME'S women staffers. Reporter-Researchers Susan Altchek Aroldi and Linda Young drew statistics on employment and advancement from census reports and government publications. Correspondents Marguerite Michaels and Mary Cronin talked with women leaders as well as with the mostly male...
...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
...planned $26 million Soldiers field sports complex is completed within the next few years as its designers hope the problems of inadequate space and facilities will be greatly allestated. The addition basketball and swimming facilities could spare a resurgence of J.V. interest in loose sport. In any events, many of the Harvard Radcliffe athletic teams will be able to breathe more easily what the proposed complex becomes a reality...
Another Ivy League school may drop several sports entirely, mainly due to lack of student interest, Watson said. He said that football is the only sport that commands a lot of student interest at this school. As far as other sports are concerned. Watson said, a student is regarded by his classmates as somewhat unusual if he goes out for a varsity team...
Died. Avery Brundage, 87, president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72); of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A 1912 U.S. Olympic track competitor and later self-made millionaire in construction, Brundage became the most powerful figure in international amateur sport as head of the I.O.C. Viewing the Olympics as a "20th century religion" free of "injustice of caste, race, family or wealth," Brundage autocratically, ruthlessly and sometimes pettily railed against "commercialism" in sport, upholding an increasingly elusive ideal of amateurism and several times axing popular athletes for minor infringements...