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...Tennis Championships had barely begun when three of the eight seeded players in the men's singles were eliminated. And by whom? By three Yanks - all of whom had been completely ignored by Wim- bledon's seeding committee, and two of whom were members of the U.S. Da vis Cup team that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game...
TELEVISION Thursday, June 1 SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.)* Fredric March narrates "I, Leonardo da Vinci," which re-creates the life of the artist. Repeat...
...place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation to the Orthodox...
Like a swarm of locusts, five helicopters descended onto the concrete veran da of the shelterlike municipal auditorium in Braunschweig. From one stepped Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, 63, there to attend the first convention of his Christian Democratic Union since he took office. Kiesinger quickly made it clear that he was also there to take charge. After a two-hour speech, in which he matter-of-factly demanded full control of the party, he was voted in as chairman of the C.D.U. by an overwhelming majority of 423 to 16, replacing Ludwig Erhard. He also, despite early objections, won almost...
PORTUGAL has the Algarve, along the southern coast, now easily reachable by car from Lisbon over the recently opened Salazar Bridge. The chic people have begun to flock into two new ocean-view luxury hotels in Praia da Rocha and Portimào. The beaches and water are superb, the prices are reasonable, and there is a new 18-hole golf course, which will host this year's European Ladies championship. Another "find" this year will be the island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months...