Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicion is that Harry Hopman, coach of Australia's Davis Cup team, picks his players as much for the hang of their jaws as the strength of their forearms and wrists. At least it looked that way last week, when Hopman and his prognathous protégés posed proudly with a sterling-silver heirloom. And why not stick out their chins? The Aussies have been inviting the world to come fight for the Davis Cup every year. But hardly anyone makes much of a scrap...
Australia's Challenge Round opponent this time was India, and rarely, if ever, have the Davis Cup finalists been so obviously mismatched. All four Aussies-Fred Stolle, Tony Roche, Roy Emerson and John Newcombe-were ranked among the top ten amateur tennis players in the world...
...singles matches in straight sets-polishing off Mukherjea in 66 min., Krishnan in 95 min. Fred Stolle's "big" serve, the biggest in the amateur game, did the rest. Aceing Krishnan twelve times and Mukherjea 20 times, Stolle won the other two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last 17 years...
...loss of Emerson and Stolle could cripple Australia's Davis Cup chances next year-although the loss of Ralston, in the view of one expert, just might boost U.S. chances for the cup. Said Aussie Coach Harry Hopman: "I don't think America will miss Ralston from the team. He did not have a very good record in Davis Cup matches...
...over $1 billion a week, swelled from $681 billion to $739 billion; the number of jobs rose by 2,200,000 and 75 million Americans were at work; the average income for a family of four rose from $9,772 to $10,304. But if the nation's cup ran over, that was simply another way of saying that it ran out of capacity...