Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laver's own rugged initiation into the pro ranks makes the performance of two 1967 rookies seem all the more remarkable. As an amateur, California's Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 24, was noted mainly for his flaming temper and his inexplicably bad play in crucial matches. More mature and confident now, Ralston, according to Rosewall, "has the potential to be one of the top players on the tour"-and so far he already is: with $27,230, he ranks No. 2 in money winnings, and he has beaten Laver six times in 16 matches. The other hot rookie...
...Lichtenstein's celebrated "comic strip" canvases of 1962. "My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work." Pure boasting? At the time, yes. Lichtenstein's first pop paintings were derided as belonging to the "King Features school," and a bad joke. Today, it's all the way to the bank. At 43, Lichtenstein is a pop hero: half a dozen museums own his work, his every show is a sellout, and his prices have jumped tenfold, to $12,000 for a large canvas...
...worst kind of destruction I've seen," said Zoo Keeper John Nichols. "It'll be too bad," added another attendant, "if we get a mean elephant out of this-she certainly isn't going to get any smaller." Yet, despite the opening-day mayhem, Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi is determined to make the animals available to children. "There will be no fences," he said. "That would ruin what we're trying to make here...
...figure that he wants to prove he is good at other things than running Yale-most likely at politics. Brewster admits that unlike most Yale presidents, he does not want to keep the post until retirement age. "To stay ten years-give or take half of that-would be bad for the institution and bad for me," he says. He does not discuss his political aims, but few expect him to aim lower than a Senate seat. In mocking reference to both his ambitions and his stylish mode of dress -mod-striped shirts handmade in Hong Kong, J. Press suits...
...bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra are friends. But Cerf has an even better reason. "This represents the sleaziest kind of publishing there is," he says: "Books that vilify a celebrity...