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...ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket is finally off the pad. He swept the Australian and French singles titles, and on Wimbledon's famed center court last week he needed only 53 min. to crush his unseeded countryman Martin Mulligan, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1, for his third national championship of the year. Only the U.S. championship at Forest Hills in September stands between Laver and a "grand slam" of amateur tennis' four top tournaments, a feat accomplished only once before...
...killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd each Sunday dawn, even though Shinder's consignment of papers from Minneapolis' twin city does not arrive until 8. Every copy bought from Hyman...
HANOVER, N.H., May 9--The varsity tennis team rebounded from its white-washing at the hands of Princeton Saturday to crush Dartmouth, 8-1, here today. Paul Sullivan, the Crimson's number one singles player, was the only man to lose, bowing to the Indians' Jim Biggs 6-1, 6-1. Keith Martin, playing number five, was the only Harvard man to need three sets...
...last game with a clutch single; Gavin Gilmor, who has hit homers in the just three contests; league-leading lumberman Mike Drummey; fielding expert Dave Morse; catcher Dick Diehl, who wins ball games with his bat and his chatter; hustling Curly Combs, who knocked in six runs to crush Princeton; currently red-hot Terry Bartolet; and right field master Bobby St. George...
...affirmatively and massively." Virtually every political party has rallied to De Gaulle's support. Socialist Leader Guy Mollet said flatly, "The sense of our 'Yes' is to make the criminals who want to prevent peace in Algeria understand that the French nation is unanimously determined to crush their enterprise." Communist Boss Maurice Thorez complained that De Gaulle had stolen "our policies" but said that Reds would vote yes because "it's peace that counts...