Word: panchos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smooth tactics that had won Ken the U.S. title and made him a Davis Cup hero were as polished as ever. But all Rosewall did was set things up so that Pancho could move in for the kill. Behind his big serve, Pancho's long legs and long reach always got him to the net in time to put the ball away. Little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ken was forever trapped halfway, pecked to death by shots that snicked at his feet. Pancho covered the court with that extra grace that made everything work, and at both Wellington...
...Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...
...wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right after the matches to turn pro. For a $65,000 guarantee and 25% of the gate receipts over $300,000, plus a 5% bonus if he beats Pro Champ Pancho Gonzales, Rosewall will go on a 13-month tour with Jack Kramer's traveling tennists. But the sad truth is that even with Rosewall gone, Australia has a thick layer of talented young players to throw against a thin line of undertrained and only mildly promising U.S. youngsters...
...drawn by Author Clément, a Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right...
...chief engineer (1915); of a heart ailment, a month after he retired as president, became board chairman of Bell Aircraft Co.; in Buffalo. Larry Bell helped develop an early "bomber" before joining Martin (converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records...