Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feeling the need for moral support in its battle with Pro Promoter Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 15). the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia asked the International Lawn Tennis Federation to ban Kramer's using amateur-controlled courts for his pro shows. Vexed by L.T.A.A. sniping, Kramer warned that he could "get a lot rougher," added menacingly, "I could destroy the entire Davis Cup structure by signing up the world's leading amateurs next year." During a break in these interchanges, the U.S. Davis Cup team whipped Italy 5-0, moved into the challenge round against the heavily favored...
...grass-roots political movement, so fervently supported that it survived ten years under a dictator's jack boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
Study in Contrasts. Wherever they come from, all the girls would get a high Kublai Khan rating. Oddly enough, perhaps the easiest of all recruiting jobs involved the 20-carat stars. Early last spring Rodgers saw Pat Suzuki on Jack Paar's television show and recognized her right away as his stripper, Linda Low. After Miyoshi's Oscar-winning performance in the movie Sayonara, both Rodgers and Hammerstein realized that Mei Li's lines had been written for no one else...
...Jack Benny (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). The old boy on his merry way, giving his usual lesson in the art of comedy...
After the match, Coach Jack Barnaby commented, "I'm always glad to beat Army. Those service teams just don't give up until the last point." Barnaby criticized his squad's "spotty playing" and "a couple of cases of overconfidence...