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...changes in tennis tradition have been for the worse. The millions of dollars in prize money have attracted a gallery of international players. The game that was once dominated by Americans and Australians is now a polyglot sport with stars from Mexico, Argentina, India, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Such varied talent, combined with the switch at Forest Hills from grass to a claylike surface that does not favor the spasmodic serve-and-volley offense, prompted Wimbledon Champion Arthur Ashe to predict last week that multiple upsets would rock this year's Open. Indeed, former Open Champion Stan Smith...
...Caribbean beaches, its expanses of jungle, its kinetic, polyglot capital, have long made Venezuela a fascinating place for off-the-beaten-trackers to visit. More important, for six decades the country has been sort of an ancillary Texas, supplying the U.S. with immense quantities of cheap and handy oil. Now, riding on the rapid ascent of petroleum prices, Venezuela is fast becoming one of the most formidable nations in the Western Hemisphere...
...Dutch metropolis has long had a brisk local traffic in both hard and soft drugs, mainly to supply the needs of its resident Chinese and the floating, polyglot population of young Europeans and North Americans who have made the place a kind of enduring Woodstock since the mid-1960s. Over the past 18 months, though, Amsterdam has changed from merely a drug-using city to the chief narcotics distribution point in Europe. Says Nicholas Panella, Paris-based deputy director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's European operations: "Products from there are finding their way into cities all over...
...last fall. Although San Francisco's population is 57% white, only 27% of public school pupils are white (v. 40% in 1968); some 28,000 white children now attend private and parochial schools in the city. The remaining public school pupils are a polyglot collection who speak 33 different native tongues. The 73% from nonwhite minority groups include blacks (30%), Chinese (16%), Mexican and Latin Americans (14%) and Filipinos...
...Neill was elected to Congress as Representative from the polyglot district that now embraces Boston's fashionable Beacon Hill, 36 colleges and universities, as well as the working-class neighborhoods of Cambridge, where his real power lies. His predecessor in the seat was John F. Kennedy, who moved to the Senate that year. When O'Neill went down to Washington, he made sure that his roots remained firmly planted in Cambridge. His wife Millie and their five children stayed at home in their modest house on Russell Street, just four doors away from the two-family house where...