Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Number four Patty Wenn came the closest to a set victory, losing 7-6 in a tie-breaker first set and then getting whitewashed 6-0 in the final. Janet Clark and May Browne rounded out the nightmare results of the singles matches, Clark losing 6-2, 6-1 and Browne topped...
...dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last two-story breaker had crashed over the summer colony of Misquamicut, R.I., only the skeletons of five cottages remained of the 500 houses that had stood there a few hours before...
...catatonic in midflight. Automatic garage doors open mysteriously in the night. Truckers' chatter interrupts ministers' sermons over church public address systems. Traffic lights go berserk. TV pictures flutter. And a solid-state sewing machine suddenly shouts to a startled Indiana housewife the password of the invading force, "Breaker! Breaker!" These strange goings-on are caused not by UFOs or other extraterrestrial goblins, but by RFI (radio frequency interference), an electronic epidemic spread by the nation's 15 million Citizens Band radios (TIME...
...pair matched games in the final set, forcing a tie-breaker which Hoekstra escaped with, 5-4. "He was tough on the crucial points," Shaw commented...
...squads split the first two doubles matches. At number one, Waldman and Cliff Adler dropped a second-set tie-breaker to lose the match, but Shaw and Lundy crushed Bob Detrich and Steve Merchant at number...