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...cast of characters, "the four best tennis players in the world-five, if I play," says Kramer. The new cast included some old faces: Don Budge, now 38 and sadly slowed, but still master of the most devastating backhand in the game; Sedgman, an old pro of 26; Pancho Segura, 32, the most dogged retriever tennis has seen; and Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, making a sensational comeback to the pro tour at the advanced...
Jackpot Prize. Even the youngest tennis fans could remember rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) Pancho Gonzales, the self-taught youngster who smashed his way to the U.S. championship at 20, helped the U.S. successfully defend the Davis Cup, then cashed in by turning pro. The fans also remember a later, paunchy Pancho, a sullen, undertrained pro who got trounced by Kramer, 96 matches to 27, in a 1950 tour. Since then, Gonzales has been teaching and playing in occasional pro tournaments, out of the big-money league. But last week a reconditioned Pancho, fit and full of walloping...
Generous Gesture. In last week's first match, a steady Segura beat a rusty Budge. Then it was up to Gonzales to launch his comeback against the world's second-best player (after Kramer), Frank Sedgman. Pancho dropped the first set, 3-6. Then he began to find the range with his booming serve, the fastest (112.88 m.p.h.) ever recorded electronically. He finally broke through in the twentieth game of the second set on his third set-point, to win it 11-9. Playing with a concentration he had seldom shown either as an amateur...
...Pesos, for Passion. Revolutionary adventure attracted Lara briefly; at 16, he left home to campaign with Pancho Villa. Back in the capital after a year of it, and hungry, he got a job playing the piano in a brothel, was soon steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth...
...people who buy and sell in this new Mexico bear about as much resemblance to the old-fashioned U.S. caricature of a barefoot peon on burro-back as Ruiz Cortines does to Pancho Villa. They are a people who have moved out of the adobe huts into the main stream of urban life. They include professional men trained in modern universities. They eat bread instead of tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water...