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Default. That was not the first time Nastase has annoyed his fellow touring pros. In Paris last December he used similar antics to needle Cliff Richey into flubbing a match. A month later Nastase ran into an American with a temperament equal to his own: Clark Graebner. The two traded insults; suddenly, Graebner leaped over the net and grabbed Nastase. Order was restored and the set completed, but the rattled Rumanian then walked off the court and defaulted the match...
...International Ice Hockey Federation, would be no match for the superstar professionals of the N.H.L. In fact, when Canada pulled out of the federation two years ago in protest over the barring of its professional players, it issued a standing challenge to the Russians to meet the N.H.L. pros skate-to-skate...
Last year at this time. Harvard football coach Joe Restic had a complicated offense imported from the Canadian pros and a lot of confused players left over from the days of the Yovicin sweep-right sweep-left-and-pray-for-the, defense system. Consequently, Harvard roared out to lose its opener to Holy Cross, a team that had not won a game in almost three years...
...committee meeting was largely a gathering of old pros, contrasting with the more youthful convention in Miami Beach. It gave Tom Eagleton such an enthusiastic reception that he looked like a winner rather than a man bumped from the ticket because of his past mental-depression treatments. Yet there was an almost solid show of unity behind Shriver on the committee roll call. He got all of the 3,016 votes except Missouri's 73, which went sympathetically to Eagleton, and four in Oregon that went to former Senator Wayne Morse, who is seeking a comeback there this year...
...Lutz's real ability is his strength," says Rosewall, the master tactician and most durable of the pros. "He can play even the most difficult shots with simple strength. And he's got age on his side." Relaxing in Cleveland last week in a blue and pink striped Pierre Cardin shirt, blue velveteen blazer and color-coordinated bellbottoms, Lutz attributed his sudden rise to a newfound confidence. "Tennis is 70 to 80 percent psychological," he said. "After you beat Rosewall or Laver once, you say to yourself, 'I can do it again...