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...More Years. Both of Jill's parents were motorcycle racers, and Jill is well aware of the risks involved. "When Mum came to have me, she nearly died. She'd been so shaken up inside. It gets a girl in the tummy." To protect her own tummy, Jill wears a g-in.-wide "body belt," but she still takes a beating elsewhere. Last year in Scotland, she fractured a kneecap. In Wales, Jill suffered through a series of bizarre misfortunes. Stuck in a deep bog, she had to drag her 3OO-lb. cycle out of the mud. When...
...ever so much nicer than staying home with the telly," cooed a middle-aged mum with crimped grey hair to her friend in flowered silk. Under the fringed pink lights of a big London ballroom, there were nearly 1,000 women like them-gossipping, knitting, spooning ices from paper cartons or drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like...
...visit to London's Press Club. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 60, became the first woman ever to enter its hallowed taproom, graciously acknowledged the honor by picking up a billiard cue and hazarding a left-handed shot. "Rather fun," said Queen Mum. while being snapped in an already famous photograph. After she had departed the Fleet Street sanctuary, the club secretary commented, "She was very expert; you can tell that she's played before" a supposition subsequently confirmed by a press aide, who classed her a pretty fair player...
...about its Samos program. Samos was quite frankly designed to be a "spy in the sky"-a satellite carrying telescopic camera equipment that could take pictures of the whole earth. But then came the U-2 incident, sky spies became unpopular among diplomats (if not among military men), and mum became the word for Samos. Last week, the most the Air Force would admit, even unofficially, was that the orbiting Samos contained "test photographic and related equipment...
Aside from their records, U.S. sports fans know little about the Aussie champions, but Fraser and Laver are heroes Down Under. Son of a Victoria judge, Neale Fraser began to play at eleven ("Mum gave us rackets to keep us off the streets"), was finally able to persuade his skeptical parents that he should concentrate on tennis instead of following the family tradition of becoming a lawyer or a doctor...