Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers, especially when he examines the relationship between hunting and sex among the British upper classes ("Horses lead to divorces") and reconstructs a passionate conversation after a hunt: "Gad, you went well today." "Gad, you're going well now." "Gad. you're a sportsman...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...
Quarter a Throw. There were some white ties, of course, and a few top hats, such as that on New Jersey's horsy sportsman, Amory L. Haskell. There was some glitter of jewels, such as the diamond-decorated egg-sized emeralds on tiny Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel Newhouse (see PRESS). There were a few chic and social standouts, such as golden-haired Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, who rode in a working hunter class in the afternoon, then appeared for the evening opening in a simple black sheath topped by a shocking-pink jacket. There was a scattering...
...volcanic spine to fuel-hungry Tokyo. Last week 5-ft.-tall Shige Kawata, 75, president of the steelmaking Nippon Kokan company, watched the gas start to flow through a 208-mile pipeline that his firm built in less than a year and guarantees to be earthquake-proof. An avid sportsman who is president of the Japan Basketball Association and holds the fifth degree in judo, Kawata argues that a successful businessman must compete not for money but "for love of the game." Since 1951, aggressive competitor Kawata has quadrupled Nippon Kokan's steel production, to 3,255,000 tons...
Dean Monro issued a statement last week after receiving word of the ECAC's decision. He called it "a matter of deep disappointment and distress to us," and praised Kinasewich as "a fine student, a fine gentleman, and a fine sportsman...