Word: erik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rafael Osuna, 24, who perfected his tennis as a student at Southern Cal, had proved himself a one-man gang in earlier cup matches, trimming the U.S.'s Jon Douglas in a close match and beating both Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist...
...Died. Erik Scavenius, 85, Denmark's puppet Prime Minister during the Nazi occupation; in Copenhagen. An arrogant aristocrat, he greeted the Germans with the statement that Hitler had "stricken the world with astonishment and admiration," formed a Danish Free Corps to fight the Russians, and remained in power until 1943, when the Nazis were forced to appoint a military governor; his explanation was that he collaborated to spare his country from Nazi terror, and though he did not go to prison, his countrymen never forgave...
Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
...ERIK JENSEN...
...Mexico's brilliant but erratic Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox: a tense, 3-2 victory over Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist in the Davis Cup Interzone semifinals at Mexico City. Palafox lost both his singles matches, but teamed with Osuna to win the doubles in four sets, and Osuna outlasted Lundquist 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the deciding singles match. Next stop for the Mexicans: New Delhi, where they will play India for the right to take on Australia next month in the challenge round...