Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game, 3 ½-hr, marathon that ranks among the longest in Wimbledon history, Texas' crew cut Cliff Richey outlasted Australia...
Double Fault. Not even a home-court advantage figured to be much help to Olvera and Guzman when it came to playing the likes of Ashe, Cliff Richey and the U.S. doubles team of Marty Riessen and Clark Graebner-all of whom are veterans of the international circuit. Richey got the U.S. off to a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series by beating Guzman, 6-2, 2-6, 8-6, 6-4. But what happened after that was incredible. Ashe, who had not lost a single set in Davis Cup play this year, lost three...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "And Baby Makes Five," the story of a successful Madison Avenue type who finally decides that he'd rather switch jobs and fight the system. Cliff Robertson plays the adman turned crusading small-town editor; Angie Dickinson is his fashion-model wife. Repeat...
...have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia trunk ever found, a 33-ft. fossilized section composed of bamboo-like segments. It was lodged at the base of a cliff in an Upper Devonian Period stratum some 300 million years old. How it got there is a mystery that Schweitzer hopes to solve on a future expedition, when he will search for Pseudobornia's still-unknown ancestors. "With such a tremendous stature," he says, "it could not have sprung fullblown...
Like Moses, Douglas leads the way but never settles in the promised land. Thirty miles from it, as he descends by rope from a cliff, the widowed bride coldly cuts the cord and he plummets to the rocks below. A wooden slab marks his resting place, and the troupe troops on to Oregon...