Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur round before the Atlanta Classic tournament, he took the occasion to hand out a few tips from "the greatest pro of all time-the Lord Jesus Christ." Proper stance: "We must take a stand on what we believe in." Proper grip: "Get a grip on life." Hitting the ball from inside out: "True also in life, since the Bible says you have a body with a spirit inside it." Keeping your eye on the ball: "Keep looking for Jesus, the author of our faith," Following through: "God's rules can be rough, but we all have to play...
...there doesn't want me to win." That was the way it looked last week as Granatelli, 45, the Don Quixote of auto racing, once again was frustrated in his long and costly quest to win the Indianapolis 500. Last year, only the failure of a $6 ball bearing with eight miles to go kept Parnelli Jones from winning the 500-mile race in Granatelli's revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special. Last week, in an uncannily similar disaster, Joe Leonard was whooshing toward apparently certain victory in a new STP turbine when-just 22 miles from the finish...
...Wiley's visual puns are lampoons or deal with art alone. A square of latticed Masonite strips frames a ball wrapped in black electrician's tape from which dangles a tangled skein of white string. It bears a tag saying, "This piece was begun on April 4, 8 a.m. and completed April 4, 7 p.m.," because Wiley was making it on the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Recalls the artist: "I didn't think of the black and white as racial, but when I heard about King being shot, it suddenly seemed relevant...
Because aluminum alloy is also stiffer than steel, top players who have used the new racket claim to get better control on volleys, lobs and drop shots. "The ball doesn't fly off the surface as it does with steel," says the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston who, along with South Africa's Cliff Drysdale, plans to use the aluminum racket on this year's pro tour...
...said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing on how to pass, kick, fall or run with anything. But everyone seemed to be having a ball...