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Brutal Efficiency. The coolheaded squad that shellacked Italy last week operated with precision and brutal efficiency. Redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 23, raised puffs of chalk along the base line with his accurate overspin backhands. Neale Fraser, 28, hampered all year by a bad knee, forced the Italians into error after error with neatly placed volleys. Star of the team was wiry Roy Emerson. 25, a tireless technician who plays like a blackjack shark: he does not hit hard, but he thinks fast and rarely makes an error of judgment. Last week Emerson got Australia off to a 1-0 lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

Triple Wardrobe. As for his eating, most horses would be embarrassed. Gleason orders pizzas by the stack, has put down five stuffed lobsters at a sitting. He says he has pica, which Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary describes as "craving for unnatural food, as chalk, ashes. etc."; but what Gleason really has is merely an unnatural craving. Often-and with great will power-he diets, cutting down his intake to 1,200 calories a day. He once took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...because their children's small homes or apartments have no room for them. As a group, planners are frustrated men: they know (or think they know) just what should be done; but they have a hard time getting anybody to do it. But last week the planners could chalk up action in three widely separated areas: > Tackling the problem of the old and lonely, the 2,300,000-member United Church of Christ announced plans to build a string of nonsectarian "retirement centers" in downtown areas of cities, in villages-and near resort communities. The projects, for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Something for the Planners | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...hockey team overwhelmed the University of Connecticut varsity, 13-2, here yesterday to chalk up its fourth straight victory. Defenseman Gene Daly led the scoring barrage with three goals, while right wing Reggie Howe added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. HOCKEY TEAM DUMPS UCONN 13-2, FOR 4TH WIN | 12/14/1961 | See Source »

...wonder that Yovicsin can't stop praising his 17 seniors? And why he spent most of his pre-game instructions on strategy, leaving much of the emotional and psychological preparations up to these seniors? Before every game this year, Yovicsin ended his chalk talks with three simple but vital words: "Seniors, take over." He would leave the locker room, and the seniors would communicate with the team as only they knew...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Yovicsin Praises 'Cinderella' Squad, Credits Seniors for Ivy Championship | 11/29/1961 | See Source »

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