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Poor showings by Harvard's other two entrants cost the Crimson a shot at the team title. Defending champion Bernie Adelsberg lost in the first round to Dartmouth's number three man, 6-2, 6-2. Captain Brain Davis outlasted Yale's fourth man in the opening bracket before bowing to Beik...
True Bounce. Newest of the synthetics is Center Court, a smooth, felt-like acrylic carpet that may give lawn tennis its biggest boost in years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene...
...belonged in the same field with the likes of Damascus, winner of the Wood Memorial and this year's 8-to-5 Derby favorite, or with Ruken (2 to 1), winner of the Santa Anita Derby, or Successor (4 to 1), last year's two-year-old champion and the biggest money winner in the field, with $445,829 in total earnings. Proud Clarion, in fact, had never even won a stakes race. As a twoyear-old, he had earned a paltry $805 finishing third in one out of three starts. This year he won a few sprint...
Freezing Formula. Johnson has long been the foremost champion of voting rights on the Southern bench-even though he was temporarily stymied in the early stages of U.S. v. Alabama, launched in 1959 as the first major test of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. In Macon County, 97% of eligible whites were registered to vote v. 8% of eligible Negroes-the familiar result of intimidation and tricky tests applied only to Negroes. To avoid giving the federal courts a target for injunction, the Macon registration board periodically resigned. The tactic worked; Johnson found that the 1957 rights law authorized suits...
...constituted a monopoly, the expense of their competitive practices was "against the public interest." The commission recommended that they cut their promotion budgets by 40%, pass a 20% price reduction on to the consumer. The Board of Trade, taking a righteous stance as the consumer's champion, promised to see the recommendations through...