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...economic bind. Unemployment is rising; the country is hard-pressed to meet a $1.3 billion foreign debt coming due this year, and Josip Broz Tito, the durable dictator, admitted recently that some factories are operating at only 40% to 50% of capacity. The source of these headaches is an ailment more frequently connected with capitalist than with Communist countries: inflation...
Dave Benjamin (number two) will have to play better than he has in recent matches in order to down Princeton's hard-hitting C. D. Smith. Recovering from a back ailment, Benjamin has been extended to long three-set matches by mediocre opponents in the last week. Yet Benjamin's tricky variety of shots is just the thing to throw off Smith's pace...
...with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande...
Dave Benjamin is suffering from a back ailment, Clive Kileff is hobbled by a weak ankle, Dick Appleby has a cold, and Mike Tarre has a foot injury, but the Harvard tennis team will probably blank Amherst today anyway...
They should have known better. Most people who play Russian roulette have better luck than Koufax. In 1962 he was laid up with a circulatory ailment called Raynaud's Phenomenon. It might have affected any of ten fingers, but it settled in the left index finger, the one that controls the curve. So much for that season. Sandy won 25 games in 1963, figured to do even better last year, when he picked up his 19th in August. If only he hadn't jammed his left elbow sliding into base...