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...slender Andrés Gimeno, 21, won the Western Australian men's tennis title by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over St. Louis' improving Earl ("Butch") Buchholz, 18, tag-along member of the victorious U.S. Davis Cup squad, flashed a game so crisp and deft that the experts were saying he might become the world's best...
...below-freezing weather, came out with a couple of brand-new outfits: insulated boots ($14.95), plaid wool shirt ($2.95), corduroy trousers ($4.95), knee-length wool socks ($1.50), single-breasted, charcoal, Ivy League-style suit ($27.50), and grey slacks ($8.95). Ike paid the $60.80 bill (plus sales tax) in crisp new currency and drove home...
...made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
Spending: Out from state banks goes the crisp, new money to develop public and private enterprises...
...Capote. A long story and three short ones about the waifs and strays of the world who search for handholds and usually get their fingers stepped on. Holly Golightly, a good little bad girl, is the disarming and memorable heroine of the title story. Caparisoned in Capote's crisp, shining prose, she and her raffish companions seem like characters from a tawdry but real bedtime story...