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...previously won the cup four years in a row. But this year few experts gave Captain Dennis Ralston's charges much of a chance of defeating the wily and temperamental Rumanians, Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac, on their home grounds. In the face of rowdy fans and the worst officiating this side of Olympic boxing, only a superlative performance by Army Specialist Fourth Class Stan Smith, 25-who won both his singles matches and teamed with Erik van Dillen, 21, to take the doubles-enabled the U.S. team to eke out a 3-2 victory. Said a disgusted Captain...
...United States retained the Davis Cup for the fifth straight year edging Romania 3-2 in Bucharest. Stan Smith outlasted Ion "Dracula" Tiriac in a five-set match for the decisive point. The close match was highlighted by partisan Romanian, judges who clapped at Tiriac's points...
...shot," says Ashe, "is his athletic ability. He's so fast with his feet and hands." Nastase, the son of a bank cashier, began to display that ability at the age of eight on Bucharest's slow clay courts. As his career soared he teamed with glowering Ion Tiriac to make Rumania a formidable threat* in big-league tennis. Before last week, Nastase was acknowledged as the world's best on clay. His victory over Ashe-coupled with his close battle against U.S. Champion Stan Smith at Wimbledon last July-proves that he is a top contender...
...Hugh. When it comes to crew the word in the East it comes to the crimson boasts the most impressive record in the East over the last few years, despite the fat that the heavyweights were upset by an upstart Northeastern squad ion last Spring's Eastern Sprint Regatta. The lightweights haven't lost a race in five years, and despite the fact that Steve Gladstone has departed to take over the coaching reins at Berkeley, they look strong. And Harry Parker must be doing something right with his heavyweights when the 14 man U.S. Olympic team boasts eight Harvard...
...Rumanians, however, were obviously intent on keeping the visit on a low key. Mrs. Meir was greeted by Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer instead of President Nicolae Ceauşescu, and quickly driven off in a Mercedes limousine for an afternoon of preliminary discussions. At a state banquet given by Maurer, she openly pressed her hosts to arrange face-to-face talks between Israel and Egypt-a request that was pointedly ignored by the Rumanian press next day. At a return banquet that she gave for the Rumanians, Mrs. Meir served up fresh strawberries and avocados flown in for the occasion...