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...international tennis. Last week's defeat came in Brazil, where sportswriters spent much of the week trying to explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short of capacity) turned out to watch the matches at Porto Alegre's Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. And most of them-like the bewildered program director of Porto Alegre's TV station, who was in charge of broadcasting the play-by-play-had never seen a tennis match before...
...Brasil! Bra-sil!" Cliff lost in four sets to Mandarino, an expatriate Brazilian who lives in Madrid. Then Richey was beaten in straight sets by Koch, who grew up right across the street from the Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. Dennis Ralston kept U.S. hopes alive by beating Koch and teaming with Ashe to win the doubles, 7-5, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. But in his final singles match against Mandarino, the Menace lost his cool. Visibly rattled by noisy spectators, who chanted "Brasil! Bra-sil!" from the third set onward, he collapsed completely in the fifth...
...other parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...
...Stops. At Leopoldina, outpost base for operations, an airfield has been cleared for the expedition's three planes. Two are for supply and reconnaissance, one for emergencies...
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