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Growing pains did not keep Laver from winning his share on the tour: $50,000 in 1963, $40,000 last year. Now the Rocket is really off the pad. Last week at Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, he needed just 41 minutes to polish off Gonzales 6-3, 6-1, to win his fourth victory in six tournaments, boost his 1965 winnings to $15,500-tops on the tour. Admitted Rosewall grimly: "I lie awake nights, staring at the ceiling...
...Peking's Great Hall of the People swarmed 2,836 delegates to the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, for its third session in 15 years. Among the "elected" Deputies on hand was, of course, Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had just celebrated his 71st birthday, and who, according to the New China News Agency, was still the object of "boundless love...
PETER CHINNI-Marks, 19 East 71st...
Screamers & Jumpers. In early September, at a sweaty, tumultuous Democratic convention in the musty 71st Regiment Armory on Manhattan's lower Park Avenue, Kennedy steamrollered Upstate Congressman Sam Stratton, his only rival, 968 to 153. He won the Liberal Party's endorsement the same day. Aware that the Liberals delivered 406,000 votes to Jack Kennedy in 1960 -more than J.F.K.'s 3 80,000-vote statewide margin of victory-Bobby welcomed their support...
Friendly Fishmongers. At the Democrats' raucous caucus in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, Bobby Kennedy won hands down over upstate New York Congressman Samuel Stratton. The 968,153 vote failed to reflect the resentment of many convention delegates that Bobby is by no stretch of the imagination a New Yorker. On hand to help Bobby, who has yet to win any elective office, were Wife Ethel and seven of their eight children. Daughter Kathleen, 13, promised to campaign for Daddy "if he asks me." Daughter Courtney, 7, was looking forward to residence in New York because...