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...Jones's boys, cocky little Bobby Riggs, insisted on taking money beyond expenses for amateur tennis-the unforgivable sin in Jones's eyes. "If you persist in this sort of thing, you're on your own," warned Jones. "Okay," said Bobby, "I'm on my own." He became national pro champion...
...attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches far too many of our transactions are accomplished in disorder, and occasionally approach aesthetic indecency. Popular taste in America has improved appreciably in recent years. . . . This improved taste penalizes churches, particularly in the great cities, which persist in the cults of ugliness, untidiness and sentimentalism...
...effects of speeding-up and watering-down will persist at least another half-decade. For the individual, eight terms in Cambridge are more than ever a matter of what he chooses to make them. The resources of a distinguished university are still available; they are simply being worked much more intensively. Harvard's plush may be wearing thin, but the foundation and the framework are still first-rate...
...that . . . an agreement, not temporary in character but one which will ensure long-term peaceful reconstruction, will emerge." Mao refused to contemplate deadlock and bloody civil war. He declared emphatically: "I do not believe that the negotiations could break down. Under whatever condition, the Chi nese Communist Party will persist in a policy of avoiding civil war. There may be difficulties, but they will be overcome...
...liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...