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Candid as the explanation was, it did not satisfy his customers. "It is really intolerable that power supplies should be inadequate," declared the Times, and other papers agreed. Tongue in cheek, BBC Television Commentator Cliff Michelmore appeared "on behalf of the electrical industry" to report that the blackouts were not "anything like the disgraceful failure of the electric supply in New York last week. Ours were on purpose." As if to prove him right, the Electricity Board's engineer pulled the plug again the next night...
...Spain's Manuel Santana, 27: the U.S. National Singles tennis championship, beating South Africa's Cliff Drysdale 6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1 in a final match that was interrupted for 40 min. by rain; at Forest Hills, N.Y. Ranked No. 3 in the world (behind Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, both of whom were eliminated in the quarter-finals), Santana spent the recess buying 15 pairs of wool socks to wear over his sneakers for better footing on the muddy court, limited Drysdale to one game the rest...
...beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...
...Squaw Peak, the cabaret commands a heady view of the still snow-blotched peak above and Lake Tahoe below. Just getting there is half the fun. On the valley floor, couples are guided into four-seater gondolas by an attendant. After skimming through a notch in a granite cliff and floating over forests of white pine and ponderosa, they bump to a stop amidst the sound of music echoing about the uppermost peaks...
...Dennis Ralston, 23: the National Clay Court Championship, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, over 18-year-old Cliff Richey; in Chicago...