Word: sports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even greater extent than in any other sport, the outcome of the traditional Yale race determines the success of the crew season. Capture of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in July would be the supreme achievement in rowing but before that there is a large debt to be paid back against the Elis on the Thames of Connecticut the second Saturday in June. And the Crimson has the crew...
...Harvey Haddix, who pitched better far longer than any pitcher ever did-and lost. See SPORT...
...Rodger Ward, who out lasted the favorite, skimmed by three major crashes and set a new record in the U.S.'s most exacting test of men and racing cars. See SPORT...
...A.M.A. launched its study two years after Dr. Herbert Berger of the New York Medical Society charged that the use of the pills was widespread in sport (TIME, June 17, 1957), intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there...
...Popular Sport. Most European stocks do look so attractive that throughout the Continent brokerage houses are becoming as popular as coffee houses. In France, where the De Gaulle government recently liberalized imports and devalued the franc to the free-market rate, the general stock index has jumped 24% in 1959. In West