Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever the going got rough, an invariable sequence of events always seemed to overtake Italy's two standout tennis stars: lithe Nicola Pietrangeli would weep, towering Orlando Sirola would laugh, and, sooner or later, both would get beaten. But last week in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Perth, Australia, the emotional Italians, crying and chortling as always, suddenly turned tough under pressure. After losing two matches in a row, they rallied to defeat a favored squad of U.S. youngsters 3-2, thereby earned Italy the right to challenge the proud Australians later this month for the Davis Cup...
...wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated lunchroom. A restaurant official ordered Boynton to leave, and when Boynton declined, called the cops. Boynton was fined $10 in police court, and his conviction was upheld by Virginia's Supreme Court...
...life as in his work, Raphael Soyer, 60, is one of the quietest of American painters. Short (5 ft. 2 in.) and shy he speaks in a voice so low that listeners must cup their ears to hear him. But his feelings run deep, and his words are often blunt. This week 32 oils and 34 of his drawings are on display at Manhattan's ALA Gallery in his first show in four years. They were like the man himself-strangely still, unexpectedly strong...
Some of the nation's best squash players will participate in the Lockett Cup matches that will be held tomorrow afternoon and all day Sunday at Hemenway Gymnasium...
...Lockett Cup matches is an contest among Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Although he does not have definite confirmations as yet, Barnaby said that such Harvard greats as Charles Ufford '53, former National Colagiate Champion, are expected to compete...