Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week if he was feeling his years, Salty beamed: "I'll take you on any time." He probably could...
There is, of course, more than one way to train for a Davis Cup match. Some ways are just better than others. Australia's defending champions got ready for last week's challenge round by playing in warmup tournaments and running laps. Their Spanish challengers had a different theory. They arrived in Australia two weeks late, explaining casually that they had missed a connection in Tahiti. ("It was," sighed Spain's Luis Arilla, "such a beautiful spot.") Then they begged out of two Australian tournaments and didn't even hoist a racket during a "practice session...
...just want to smell the grass," explained Arilla. Added Star Player Manuel Santana: "Don't worry. We will take the Davis Cup back with...
...seven years ago at the Cricket Club of India. In 1964 he entered the national and junior championships and won both of them. During the summer of 1965 he toured England with his coach, Yusuf Khan. He became junior champion of the British Commonwealth when he won the Drysdale cup, the most coveted squash award for 19-year-olds in the world...
Timed to the Second. Afterward Bubas called it "the greatest comeback any Duke team has ever staged"-a little regretfully, perhaps, because showmanship is not Vic's cup of tea. (Nor Michigan's apparently, because the demoralized Wolverines went out and got clobbered again, 79-64, by little Butler.) "Basketball should be businesslike," says Bubas, and from his walnut-paneled executive suite on the Durham, N.C., campus, he directs Duke's basketball fortunes with the crisp efficiency of an investment banker. Practice sessions are timed to the second and preceded by staff meetings that would, remarked...