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America's top player, Chuck McKinley, blasted Mike Hangster, 7-5 to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead, and Frank Froehling, named a starter by Kelleher only 24 hours before play began, outstroked lefthander Billy Knight...
...Orator. Only when word got around that Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen was scheduled to speak did the Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the doubts about the treaty, Dirksen and Majority Leader Mansfield had asked President Kennedy to write a letter that Ev would read to the Senate. In his letter, the President offered Senate doubters "unqualified and unequivocal assurances" that the U.S. would maintain its readiness to resume testing, that it would "take all necessary...
Pout, Curse, Hurl. For the first time in years, the U.S.'s top-seeded player has some sturdy new seedlings to back him up. In the third-ranked slot, behind McKinley and Emerson, is Denny Ralston, 21, of Bakersfield, Calif. When Ralston is good, he is very, very good. When he is bad, he pouts, curses, hurls rackets and tortures himself with despair. On top of his form, this year he has won the national indoor singles and doubles, the national intercollegiate singles and doubles, and his share of the Davis Cup matches against Mexico. At his worst...
Three notches behind Ralston is Eugene Scott, 25, a big server from New York. Yaleman Scott won this year's Eastern grass court championships in South Orange, N.J., last year beat McKinley and Veteran Vic Seixas in indoor matches...
Ralston, or Scott, could succeed McKinley as No. 1 U.S. amateur. Indeed they may have no choice. For, like the Australians before him, McKinley has been offered something like $50,000 to turn professional, and only Forest Hills, the Davis Cup, and a few more months at Texas' Trinity University stand...