Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians Are Coming, Keith began a new career as a deadpan comedian. Now, teamed with Bridges, he gives the liveliest performance of his career as an agnostic Catholic and whoremaster-repentant whose right hand has not consulted his left for 40 years. The pro and the amateur barge around the gaudy streets of a meticulously reconstructed 1910 Chicago, hungry for trouble. Ben treats each new experience as if he were staring down the well of life. One time he falls in and drowns. But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer. On a morgue slab...
...Harvard captain is presently ranked number one in national collegiate standings and should be seeded first in the University Tournament when it begins at 11 a.m. today. Peter Marin, Canada's number-one Men's Amateur player, beat Terrell in the championship match two years ago, and Harvard's Anil Nayar edged his teammate for the title last season...
...quality and hazardous goods find their way into the marketplace; too much is overpriced, and too little works right. Consumer protest groups, often led by women, have been organized in many states. Longtime consumer activists profess amazement that the public has waited so long to fight back. Until lately, amateur, part-time buyers have felt unequal to challenging professional, full-time sellers. Says Peter Drucker, author of The Age of Discontinuity: "We have been a very patient people by and large. Now people are fed up, and 1 do not blame them...
...displeasure of the ECAC, and consequently of the NCAA, with Yale is actually no more than its reflected bitterness with the AAU with whom it has struggled for several years over control of American amateur athletics...
Previously, the dispute had primarily been confined to track, where one organization would frequently prohibit its members from participating in a meet sanctioned by the other. But last summer the struggle broke out anew over sanctioning of American amateur participation in Israel's Maccabiah games, somewhat of a Jewish Olympics...