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...preacher, Tennis Pro Bobby Riggs learned early that heaven helps those who hustle their neighbors. As a kid in Los Angeles, he once cleaned out a playmate in a marbles match. "Then," Riggs recalls, "I traded him 100 marbles and two aggies for the tennis racket his sister got for Christmas." That accomplished, little Bobby got down on his knees-not to give prayerful thanks but to "win back the 100 marbles and the two aggies all over again. I figured it taught him a lesson...
...energy-conserving ploys that Old Pro Jack Kramer has seen too much of. "Knowing Bobby as I do," says Kramer, "he will use every trick to stall. When they change sides, he will take two minutes to wipe off his racket. After a volley, he will stall before the next serve to catch his breath. My guess is that Margaret, who has a good disposition, will tolerate his tactics and not complain to the umpire. That will be a mistake...
...Your article on the antiquities racket ignores one of the major causes of it: the governments who make it illegal to export antiquities...
...racket in Italy involves a couple of thousand fulltime, professional tombaroli or tomb robbers, most of them peasants who know their land intimately. They work in teams. There are, for instance, at least twelve organized groups plundering the Etruscan sites in Cerveteri. Their scorn for official archaeologists is extreme...
...follow through, Lindner seems to wrap the racket around his head in a manner reminiscent of Jim Bunning falling off the mound, but his feet remain in position, and his quickness and stamina are already getting steadier...