Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kick off what will be the most lavishly financed presidential campaign in American history, the Republicans staged a warmup set of spectaculars last week. The star of the shows of course was Richard Nixon. In the space of seven hours, he spoke at $500-a-plate dinners in both New York City and Chicago. Closed-circuit TV carried the festivities to 18 other cities, where such Republican luminaries as John Wayne, Jackie Gleason, Art Linkletter and Martha Mitchell played deferential host. It was the President's evening; even Martha spoke for only two minutes...
...North American volleyball team a very polite welcome," said Premier Fidel Castro during a 55-minute speech. "They are representatives of the North American people, not their government. No one should compare their trip here with Yankee imperialism." Meanwhile the U.S. volleyball team, in Cuba for a series of warmup games for the 1972 Olympics, was getting a glimpse of life behind the Sugar Cane Curtain. One bit of information gleaned from the Cubans by Team Physician Dr. Robert Pike was the reason Castro's speeches are so long. "They told me that Castro realizes he is trying...
Since their inception in 1951, the quadrennial Pan-American Games have served as a kind of Olympic warmup session for strong U.S. teams. American athletes have so dominated the Pan-Am Games, in fact, that International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage began to wonder whether they might be too good for their own good. Shortly before the opening of the sixth Pan-Am Games in Cali, Colombia, the 83-year-old Brundage observed: "It doesn't look good for the U.S. to be collaring three-quarters of the Pan-Am medals. It's not good for sports...
...heavily in track and women's gymnastics. After the first of two weeks of competition, the U.S. had won 131 medals as compared to 73 for second-place Cuba. Even so, it was clear that the U.S. team could no longer regard the games as an easy warmup. "This is our strongest overall Pan-Am team," explained one U.S. official, "but the marked improvement of the other teams will probably cause us to win fewer medals...
...victory, which served as a warmup for important games this week against Brown and Princeton, may have been costly. Late in the first quarter, goalie John Cosentino scrambled behind the net and reinjured a knee which was operated on last summer. Cosentino strained a ligament and is now on crutches. He will almost surely miss the Brown game here Wednesday...