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Actually, the system used at Forest Hills was only half-VASSS. Pure VASSS resembles table-tennis scoring: each successful shot earns one point, match is 31, and the player who reaches 31 first must have a two-point margin to win-otherwise, the match goes into an eight-point overtime. Service changes hands after every five points. On fast surfaces such as grass, big serves are discouraged either by 1) limiting the players to one serve per point, or 2) making them serve from a line 3 ft. behind the base line...
...display of post-election charity, Johnson invited leading Democrats from Georgia, one of the few states he did not carry, to the ranch. Senator Her man Talmadge and Governor Carl Sanders each bagged an eight-point buck...
...best swimming team in Navy's history will host the Crimson in Annapolis, and will no doubt provide much tougher competition than they did last year when Harvard gained an uncomfortably narrow eight-point victory...
...Meeting. Finally, at 2 a.m., as the baggage of both the Adoula and Tshombe delegations was being loaded onto their planes, the two sides wearily agreed to sit down for one last session. An hour later. Adoula came out to announce agreement; later his Information Minister read out the eight-point declaration that he said Tshombe had signed on Katanga's behalf. It included not only acceptance of the Loi Fondamentale, but recognition of the need of a unified Congo, and a promise to hand over control of Katanga's gendarmerie to Adoula's regime. Tshombe even...
...varsity track team tied for seventh in the IC4A championships Saturday night in New York's Madison Square Garden. Stan Doten and Ted Bailey finished two-three in the 35-lb. weight throw, and captain Fred Howard took fifth in the 1000 to account for the Crimson's eight-point total...