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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two decades the center court at Wimbledon has seemed like the private preserve of two nations: the U.S. and Australia. But last week, in the 1959 championships, the two big powers took back seats to and got one very rude shock from a pair of Latin nations, where tennis is still a relatively new and undeveloped sport. In the men's division, Alex Olmedo, who plays Davis Cup tennis for the U.S. but comes from Peru, which lists but 3,000 tennis players, was the class of the field. And in the women's division, a slender...
...rope hammered into the ice took them across in safety. Then came Camp Paradise, the first piece of flat slope they had seen in several thousand feet; Camp Fatigue, when at 15,000 ft. the altitude started to hit them; Balcony Camp, up another 1,800 ft. and just big enough for their tent with a 7,000-ft. drop below. The weather started to worsen, and they decided on a gamble: a dash to the top, even though it was 3,500 ft. away...
...While South Americans were taking the big matches at Wimbledon (see above), only a handful of spectators turned out" to watch a blond, 16-year-old Estonian named Toomas Lejus win Russia's first Wimbledon title by routing Brazilian Davis Cupper Ronald Barnes 6-2, 6-4 for the junior championship, proving how far the Soviets have come in their drive for big-time tennis...
...Big industry was obviously in a strong position to weather a short strike. Realizing this, Big Labor was ready to trim its package-wage demands from a reported 15? to 20? an hour to about a dime. But there was little apparent progress in negotiations last week. Company bargainers held fast to their no-raise stand...
Steel users eagerly snapped up that production as a strike hedge. They had already expanded their inventories from 13 million tons in January to more than 21 million tons, equal to seven weeks' top-level output by the industry. The Big Three automakers have squirreled away sufficient steel to get a good start on production of 1960 models. Among makers of appliances, Westinghouse and General Electric have a 30-60 day supply...