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Niederhoffer has already announced his decision to retire permanently from squash, and thus will end his career as abruptly as it began in his freshman year the first time he held a squash racket...
Tennis? Yup, tennis. Five Harvard racket stars, in good shape after a winter of indoor play, travel to Westport Conn., today to compete in the three-day New England Indoor Championship...
...spend up to $480 for a hospital-type bed that cranks up at head and knees, down at the buttocks and feet. For $69.95 they get a gadget, the size of a table radio, that makes white noise-"a scientific blend of all sounds"-to drown out intruding racket. Other machines swish like the restless sea, or, in midwinter, hum like summer's air conditioner. There is a whole catalogue of ear plugs, His and Her reading lights, even a togetherness cigarette holder so that two can smoke...
Frightening Racket. Commercial airports do not use the full Hardenberg system. When birds get thick along a runway, a Jeep broadcasting the appropriate distress calls drives out to clear the way so the jetliners can take off safely. There are no permanent loudspeakers to make a racket that scares away nervous passengers as well as birds...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A report on the narcotics racket, with exclusive films of the bosses and street pushers...