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Although most clubs and public parks have pros, the new players often seek more intensive training. In 1969, when All American Sports Inc. opened its first three-week tennis camp in Beaver Dam, Wis., 20 children attended. This summer there are four All American camps with 670 children and 626 adults learning the game. Above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, Tennis Pro Clark Graebner has set up a clinic which last year attracted 5,000 students to its 24-hr.-day, seven-day-week sessions. For $50, tennis buffs get eight hours of concentrated practice with a ball machine...
...frontier spirit lingers and distance, paradoxically, draws people together. Whatever the reason, something remarkable has taken place in Rapid City, S. Dak., since the Black Hills town of 44,000 was devastated by flash floods. In the disaster caused by torrential rains and the collapse of Canyon Lake Dam, more than 200 died, another 500 remained missing and some 1,000 houses were destroyed. The damage passed $ 100 million...
...fears, the AEC has insisted on extensive safety precautions. Before the Portland General Electric Co. could start building its Trojan reactor on the Columbia River, for example, it had to choose a site that would remain safe during an almost inconceivable catastrophe: the simultaneous bursting of the Grand Coulee Dam upstream plus the largest natural flood that had occurred in the area during 10,000 years...
...power, Nkrumah's big obsession was the Pan-African movement, a doomed design to unite Black Africa to fight the white settlers of South Africa, Mozambique and Rhodesia. At home, Nkrumah built roads, schools, clinics and a $200 million hydroelectric dam-a frenzy of spending that brought his country close to bankruptcy. Ghanaians are still trying to evaluate the results. "When I personally look around and see his impressive developments," said Joshua Attoh-Quarshie, a businessman who once opposed the dictator so strongly that he spent nearly eight years in jail without trial under the Preventive Detention...
Albania's best friend since its 1961 split with Nikita Khrushchev's liberalized Communism has been Red China, half a world away. Peking provided Tirana with everything from light bulbs to a giant hydroelectric dam that generates power for them. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha in return offered the Chinese relentless praise for their brand of unswerving Marxism...