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...choice but to instruct our members to withdraw." After another meeting-which A.T.P. Executive Director Jack Kramer characterized as "wrestling with our conscience"-the decision was reaffirmed. At week's end, at least 75 of the men players were planning to honor the boycott. Rumania's Hie Nastase was one of the few male stars remaining in the tournament. "None of us wants to walk out on Wimbledon," said Australia's John Newcombe. "It means so much to us -to me, if I could win it a fourth time. But if we back down, then the I.L.T.F...
Smith showed his class in the first match against Nastase, 26, keeping his cool while the gallery of 6,500 partisan fans shouted "Hai, Ili-uta!" ("Go, little Hie!"). Nastase, an army lieutenant and the closest thing Rumania has to a matinee idol, ran the gamut of his storied antics. He danced back and forth while waiting for a serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded...
...patient resignation like that of Zasu Pitts." Perelman is making a pass at a beautiful colleen (all his women are beautiful but for lips or nostrils that are a trifle too sensuous, a figure a shade too voluptuous) and: "I was just about to propose that we hie ourselves to a tumbledown shack in Athlone when a behemoth the size of Brian Boru, a great loogan with ropes around his corduroys, clumped into the snug." Her fiance, Rory McClobber...
...containing a quarter of an ounce was found in the paddy wagon shortly after the defendants left. It is uncertain who, if any of the defendants knew of the bag's presence. And it is unlikely that they left it there at all. The safest place to hie drugs is not a police car--and it is questionable whether anyone in a position likely to be arrested would carry drugs in the first place...
...spouse: "Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind," goes the latest Parkinson principle. What all that bafflegab means, says Parkinson, is that when the lady of the house feels like blowing her stack, she ought to hie herself next door for a chat and a cup of coffee instead of waiting to explode when her husband gets home from the office...