Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth, England-the world's first open tournament-an obscure British amateur proved that the talent gap may not be so big after all. On successive afternoons, Mark Cox, 24, who was not even considered good enough to play singles for the British Davis Cup team, upset two of the game's biggest names: the U.S.'s Pancho Gonzales, 39, king of the pros for 18 years, and Australia's Roy Emerson, 31, king of the amateurs until he signed a $75,000 pro contract last month...
Harvard's heavyweight crews face their most severe test of the collegiate rowing season in the Adams Cup competition at Annapolis Saturday. The Crimson oarsmen go against Pennsylvania and the Naval Academy...
Harvard's heavyweight varsity pounded to a four-length win over Princeton and M.I.T. to retain the Compton Cup Saturday. The triumph was complete, with no Crimson crew passing under the flag after a rival...
...able to move away until after 500 meters. At that point, all they had managed was a slim deck-length margin. Captain Curt Canning expressed disappointment at the inconclusive start. He noted that Harvard would have to do a good deal better before next week's Adams Cup race against Pennsylvania...
...like to think of our theatres as exclusive country clubs," says Sack. "Where else can a nice young couple go out for an evening for four or five dollars? Just a hamburger and a cup of coffee costs a dollar and a half." The Sack Theatres have become an established part of institutionalized Boston. Sack is right: that lends the enterprise a certain prestige. Yet its very success seems to threaten the unconventional approach which Sack claims has helped him make...