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...Wittington and Jane Rosenberg defeated Deborah West and Jane Rockwell for the women's doubles crown. Ann Jornson will face Millie Dubitzki in the women's singles final tomorrow...
Marsh McCall staged a dramatic comeback yesterday in winning the men's singles crown in the annual Summer School Tournament. Runner-up Andy Ingersoll had taken the first set, 6-4 and was ahead, 5-4 in the second. McCall was behind, 0-40 in his own serve, and Ingersoll had three chances for the match point...
Nasser has also been making gains on the diplomatic front. At an Arab peace conference last January, he skillfully detached Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal from the royalist side. Last month Hussein recognized the Yemen republic, and though Prince Feisal still supplies the Imam with money, he apparently has closed his borders to arms traffic...
Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 28, is 6 ft. tall, weighs a meaty 213 lbs., and keeps very quiet about the whole thing. He won the American League home-run crown with 48 in 1962, did it again last year with 45. But that was nothing. The righthanded slugger already has 39 this summer, is swinging at a pace that could set a new major league record...
...first glance, Alfie seems to be asking too much. The doctrine of res judicata (the thing is decided) holds that a fully adjudicated conviction is final. But that doctrine applies only to the original parties-in Alfie's robbery case, that means the Crown v. Hinds. The libel suit involved different parties: Hinds v. Sparks, and only by coincidence was the robbery the key issue. Since it was the issue, however, Alfie managed to have himself found "innocent" in what laymen at least could view as a retrial. Whether he now deserves a pardon is up to Home Secretary...