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...best food and service at the fair. An armada of waiters hovers around to keep the diner happy. Though the Toledo specializes in fine French cuisine, it will cheerfully give you the works in Spanish too. Start with an andaluza, follow with gazpacho soup (muy bueno) and fill up on paella. Don't forget the sangria, a red wine with soda...
...ever produced, undertook to coach her through the hard-to-cross gap that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...
...week was a fine one all round for the U.S., whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next, little Miss Moffit...
...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...
...Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never quite lived up to her potential. A player of fiery temperament, Maria had not been able to beat Darlene in their six previous matches...