Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dill openly allowed as how he was. So did the 6,000 spectators, who were treated to a dazzling display of ground-stroke techniques in the prolonged rallies encouraged by the longer, slower serves. And so did the rest of the pros, particularly redheaded Rod ("Rocket") Laver, who beat Fellow Australian Ken Rosewall, 31-29, to take home top money of $6,321-"the biggest check I ever won." The Laver-Rosewall match was a triumph for VASSS: a furious, cliffhanging battle between the two most accomplished shotmakers in tennis today. Best of all, it lasted exactly...
...They are best savored in the small lantern-lit taverns tucked away in the cobblestone alleys of old Lisbon. There, in an atmosphere drenched with pathos and the aroma of musky wine and spicy sausages, the black-draped fadistas cry out in voices quavering with anguish. Against a back ground of weeping guitars, they sing of sin and love gone wrong, of wasted lives and impending doom. Fado means destiny, and its baleful laments are more than the fatalistic Portuguese can bear: old men weep and women grow faint, all revelling in the joys of suffering...
...lower courts may grant, temporary injunctions banning FTC-challenged mergers even before the FTC holds an administrative hearing on a case. The commission has long but unsuccessfully sought such authority from Congress on the ground that it is often "impossible" to unscramble assets after a merger has taken place...
...month General Motors laid the cornerstone for a $100 million factory-G.M.'s second in Antwerp-that will be the company's main European assembly point, employ more than 6,000 Belgians and turn out 300,000 Opels a year. Last week chemical-making B.A.S.F. broke ground for a plant that will ultimately be as large as the company's home base in Germany...
Tennessean Joan Williams grew up in one of those recesses of the Old South where life resists change. Her first novel, The Morning and the Evening, was laid on just such fertile literary ground, and it established her as one of the most promising among the new group of Southern novelists (TIME, May 19, 1961). Old Powder Man, her second, keeps the promise...