Word: lawn
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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...
...Christmas Eve the Johnsons will set tables on the lawn and be hosts to about 100 local farmers, village headmen and their families. There will be plenty of curry, hot dogs, ham and soft drinks, as well as native reed-pipe music, color slides and movies. Next day, precisely at noon, surrounded by gifts of native handiwork-fish traps, bamboo baskets, buffalo and cattle bells, even blow guns-Alex and Elsie Johnson will sit down to Christmas dinner. And back home in Miami it will be midnight on Christmas...
Kramer had scarcely stepped off the plane before the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia spitefully banned his touring pros from its affiliated courts. Snapped one official: "Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...
Shake Charmer. In Norwich, Conn., Yvette Richard, 11, discovered that by standing on the lawn while whirling a hula hoop about her waist she could make worms rise from the earth all around...
...first non-Catholic to become president of the students' committee. She met Prince Akihito at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shodas have a summer villa, and beat him at tennis, 6-1. Said Akihito later: "She overwhelmed me." This spring Michiko joined the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club and in May won the club's Crown Prince Cup in a tournament, while Prince Akihito looked on and applauded. She and the prince have been together since, but never alone...