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...costume signified, the decidedly un-Victorian game of tennis is visiting its past again, spending a 97th fortnight at Wimbledon. Last week, on just one typical afternoon at the old club, eighth-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis lost, chucked his racquet into the stands and refused to talk to anybody. Fifteenth-seeded Hank Pfister, able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction for "an audible obscenity...
...group had scheduled a visit to the resting place of the humble genius of the revolution, but John and I arrived late and missed the tour. How were we to know that it would take 15 minutes for the single elevator to respond to our call from the fifteenth floor cafe near Red Square? While John waited loyally by the elevator doors in the unlikely event that they should open. I searched the landing for any indication of a staircase. Fortunately, I found a door marked "Emergency Exit." Unfortunately, it was locked. Tacked to the door was a notice...
...squad produced another one on its journey through the ITCAs consolation bracket. After dismissing Southern IIIinois--Edwardsville 6-2 to advance to the semifinals, Harvard edged Wichita State 5-3 for its first ever victory over a nationally-ranked team. Beren and Rob Loud keyed the win against the fifteenth-ranked Shockers, coming from way back to capture the decisive doubles match...
...years the Fifteenth Amendment's great promise of the vote for all on an equal basis was betrayed by a misplaced trust in the effectiveness of court action. Under a 1957 law, revised in 1960 and again in 1964, of 71 voter-discrimination suits filed, fewer than a dozen were handed with enough force to influence current election procedures. Justice Department lawyers spent an average 28 months working on each suit filed and rarely met with success. In one case six lawyers examined 36,000 pages of voter applications subpoened 185 witnesses and waited a full year before the case...
...name was called..Although the women's swim team is renowned for the amount of food it can consume, new records were set at Ivies...After her second-place performance in the 1650-yd. freestyle at Ivies, sophomore MAUREEN GILDEA's time of 17:10 has catapulted her to fifteenth-place in the nation in collegiate standings...