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...Elbows. The new racket that Scott, Graebner and King used at Forest Hills looks for all the world like an oversized tea strainer. Made of tubular, chromium-plated steel, it is far more flexible than a wooden racket; its open-throat construction permits a faster swing with less effort. "It feels like a feather," says Billie Jean. Scott says the T2000 gives him a faster serve and better control on volleys. To Graebner, the T2000 has therapeutic value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared...
...Rackets & Relations. After all, the world's 15 top tennis players were not even competing in the Nationals. They are all professionals, and in tennis, unlike golf, pros are never permitted to compete against amateurs-on the theory, presumably, that such "amateurs" as Australia's Roy Emerson, who was upset by the U.S.'s Clark Graebner in last week's quarterfinals at Forest Hills, would sully themselves by associating with people who openly play for pay. Emerson himself commands $10,000 a year as a "public relations consultant" for Philip Morris, another...
...three houses and move with the season. As he has grown older, Lacoste has turned more and more of a broad business empire over to his sons. Bernard Lacoste, 36, a Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company. In 1934, Lacoste teamed with the Bendix Corp. to form Air Equipement, a French company, to make airplane starters. The com pany has since been merged into D.B.A...
...this flat-footed travelogue of Gangland, 1929, Capone is champion of bootlegging, extortion and all other racket sports. The simple art of murder has placed him at the top alone-until George ("Bugs") Moran begins muscling in on Chicago's North Side. "I want that son of a bitch hit!" rages Al, and assigns exterminators to get rid of the Bugs in his operation. On Feb. 14, a bunch of thugs dressed as cops enter Moran's garage and gun down everyone-except Moran, who happens to be off the premises. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...have turned up over the past few months in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Las Vegas and other U.S. cities, as well as London and Madrid. Trans World Airlines, for one, has been fleeced of nearly $100,000. Police report that the cost of the write-your-own-ticket racket may come to $4,000,000 or more in lost airline revenues...