Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's Sport preview of the George Foreman-Muhammad Ali title fight in Zaïre, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs revisited the capital city of Kinshasa. When he was last there in 1962, the city was known as Leopoldville, the country was the Congo, and the story was about a bloody revolution. "Needless to say, things are much more pleasant today," says Griggs. "The sight of a press card in the old days often provoked soldiers into prodding you with bayonets or banging you in the kidneys with rifle butts. Today they wave you through roadblocks...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., other TIME correspondents interviewed KEN REGAN members of Foreman's family and reported on the special financial arrangements of this multimillion-dollar bout. Their files went to Senior Editor Laurence Barrett, Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, and Sport Editor Philip Taubman, who prepared to write this week's story by visiting both fighters at their U.S. training camps...
...enter some small boats: two fours and maybe a couple of pairs," Baker explained. "But this fall, we're gearing out program towards the freshmen. We're more interested in making this a participation sport than in killing everyone...
...tail spin. Even 20-game Winner Luis Tiant could not halt a losing streak that dropped the Red Sox into second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy May, a recent acquisition, has helped...
...season drew to a close, Watson hit on a solution for dividing up limited indoor facilities among men's and women's teams. In swimming, perhaps the most difficult sport to accommodate during the last year, he invited the two teams' captains into his office to work out a sharing system. They succeeded. The Harvard swimmers were willing to set aside enough lanes so that the women could practice at least one hour daily in the IAB pool...