Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone with bets down on both the Clay-Cooper fight and the Preakness is going to need two TV sets to keep track of the action this Saturday. For once, it isn't due to the networks' penchant for counterprogramming. Both events are being held simultaneously: the heavyweight championship bout, live from London via Early Bird satellite (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.);* the 91st running of the Triple Crown classic, live from Pimlico...
...Commodore, the leaders of three striking New York newspaper unions took up positions in three separate rooms. Representatives of the strikebound World Journal Tribune publishing company were sequestered in still another. Mediators dashed from one group to the next. Chief Mediator David Cole did his desperate best to keep track of what was going on, but by week's end all the activity had produced little in the way of bargaining. "This is a strange kind of thing," complained Cole. "It doesn't seem to respond to ordinary techniques. It's puzzling...
Some composers drink. Others dabble in love affairs. Irwin ("Bud") Bazelon goes to the race track. There, he says, "things crystallize for me. All aspects of life-hope, anxiety, success, joy, failure, anticipation-are capsulized in a two-minute ride. It stimulates...
Violent, Silent World. For Bazelon, handicapping is more than just a lucrative hobby. "The track," he explains, "is an extension of the pulse and rhythmic beat of the city, and these are the roots of my music." Indeed, the rumble of hooves has been known to inspire him to a dash off a few themes while hanging on the rail. In his Dramatic Movement for Orchestra, for instance, the slam-bang finale is his version of the horses thundering down the stretch at Aqueduct...
Leverett might gain back some points in the running half of the House track meet Friday. Their strong squad includes all four members of last year's winning half-mile relay team. But Eliot sprinters led by Mike Halleck should run well, and Leverett's winning margin will probably be small...