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...Jai-alai's Jewish superstar devours all opponents
Joey Cornblit is a nice Jewish boy from Miami, and his mother has a complaint. Her son the jai-alai player is the hottest betting commodity in town. Not only is he the first American to equal the Basque masters of the sport, he is, at 22, a reigning champion. Since around $350,000 is wagered each performance in the fronton where Joey holds sway, Mrs. Cornblit, a metalworker's wife, has been besieged by telephone calls: "Did Joey eat his breakfast?" "Did he sleep well...
...answers are reassuring, but the emphatic reply comes on court. Last year Cornblit was the overall winner at Miami's World Jai-Alai, the premier palace of the game. In the second month of a season against 46 of the top professional players in the world, Joey again leads in overall wins (32) and front-court doubles championships (8) and has a shot at the singles title as well. No player has ever won the triple crown of jai-alai in Miami, but observers-and rabid bettors-believe Joey has a chance. Says Betting Clerk Emilio Posada: "There...
Each of the four Harvard substitutes--sabreman Kerry Sulkowicz and Jim Goldenring, and foilsmen Peter Gordon and Jai Rho--who came in during the last of the three fencing rounds triumphed, allowing only five touches against themselves...
...name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them to the committee staff. Another embassy defector, Jai Hyon Lee, repeated a now familiar story of how he had accidentally surprised Ambassador Kim Dong Jo in his office stuffing envelopes containing cash into a briefcase. Asked where he was going with the money, Ambassador Kim replied, "To the Capitol...