Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Conference, who told how Hoffa tried to get a charter for Johnny...
...month cleaning up the equipment rooms in the gym. Most important of all, she found more time to study tennis. And in the winter of 1949 she felt ready to take her first tentative step across big-time tennis' color line. She entered the U.S.L.T.A.'s Eastern Indoor championships* and got to the semifinals. (Next year she won the title.) In the National Indoor championships that same winter, she went out in the quarterfinals. When she got back to college, the band, the faculty and the student body turned out to greet her. "It was my first touch...
Unmoved, New Jersey's Maplewood Country Club refused to let Althea on its courts during the New Jersey State championship. But the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, NJ. unbent and invited Althea to the 1950 Eastern Grass Court championships. She went, and got whipped in the second round. But she had earned her bid to Forest Hills...
...When Sydney first came to me," says Althea, "I thought, this guy can't teach me anything." But, for one thing, he changed her grip from the Continental, which allows a player to make forehand and backhand shots without rotating the racket, to the Eastern grip, which requires a slight rotation of the racket but allows a smoother, more powerful swing. Above all, he gave her confidence. "I'm a Virgo," says Althea, who takes her astrology seriously. "Sydney's an Aquarius, a guy of profound perception...
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...