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...Kaynes features a looping twist serve and an accurate, hard-to-handle slice backhand. Like Frey and Gordon, Kaynes needs authority at the net, but the past week has shown improvement in this department...
...backhand drive by Dave West, 47 seconds after the start of the fourth period, gave Tabor the lead for the last time. Grant tied the score at 5:38 on a shot from the side. Both teams battled indecisively for the ball until a Crimson rush set the stage for Hatch's decisive point...
...Work for Niagara In his deliberate backhand,Secretary of State Dean Acheson put his name to a six-page treaty. Then Canada's Ambassador H. Hume Wrong added his signature. Thus, in a matter of moments last week, the two nations agreed to embark on the biggest international hydroelectric power project in history. When completed, the power of Niagara Falls, much of it now wasted, will be almost completely harnessed to supply both countries with nearly six times as much energy as huge Hoover Dam generates; none of Niagara's scenic beauty will be spoiled...
Next to eating Mexican food, the thing California-born Richard A. Gonzales probably enjoys more than anything else is taking life easy. When the mood hits him, "Pancho" plays tennis, but he is not the man to fret long hours over improving his backhand, or his serve, or his volley. Says he: "I just want my whole game to get better all over." At 20, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.) Pancho is the most thoroughly unstudied champion ever to win the U.S. National singles crown...
Like Jake Kramer (now a pro), Pancho's game is built on power and a big serve. Otherwise, nobody is sure until the match begins just what his game will be like. Says Pancho himself: "Sometimes my forehand is my weakness, sometimes my backhand. It all depends on how I'm feeling that...