Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities that does not have either a big-league baseball team or a professional football team. Still, most doubtful about the value of the ruling may be Atlanta-which by now might be just as happy to give the Braves back. Picked as pennant contenders at season's start, the Braves last week lost their eighth game in nine starts, dropped into ninth place, behind the New York Mets...
...took four years, but Brabham began to show up front end first-at the finish line. He beat Stirling Moss for the world championship in 1959, won it again in 1960, and by the start of this year had won a total of seven Grand Prix races-more than any active driver except Scotland's own two-time world champion, Jimmy Clark (TIME cover, July...
...gong that Major Bowes used as a hook. In an average week, 450 people are auditioned by Mack's nationwide talent scouts, but only nine appear in the two-minute performances. Mack, 62, is so well known that when he walks down the street, would-be artists often start dancing or singing for him. He keeps his home address in New York's Westchester County a secret for fear that "I'll have every harmonica player within 100 miles sitting on my doorstep to audition." Former contestants often write to him, saying that they have children ready...
...winners get no pay, only transitory glory. As Mack says, "People get enough of a thrill just showing off." Of course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...
...place of the great old trains and of its other long-haul passenger runs, the New York Central plans to start swift, spartan (no club cars) daytime shuttle service between some 80 cities along its 10,000-mile system. This, said Perlman, will "best serve the needs of the traveling public"-not to mention the Central's balance sheet...