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With Helicopters. How can the U.S. help? Conventional tactics against the shadowy Viet Cong, a Vietnamese official pointed out last week, are "like playing soccer with a tennis racket." Despite an impressive speedup in the flow of U.S. supplies, for example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem...
...temperamental tennis-court out-hursts have earned moody, meteoric Dennis Ralston. 19. the U.S.'s third-ranked amateur player, the nickname "Dennis the Menace." A racket kicker and net pounder whose uninhibited language has occasionally curled the hair of spectators and court officials. Ralston was sentenced to one year's probation last winter by the august U.S. Lawn Tennis Association for his displays of temperament in the U.S. and Australia. Despite his adolescent antics. Ralston's graceful style and big serve made him one of the top favorites to beat out Australia's Rod Laver...
Reason for the U.S.L.T.A.'s action: Ralston blew up while losing a doubles match to Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup finals in Cleveland last month. Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own errors, swore loudly as he fell after being faked out of position. The stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved...
...converted the tough, working-class Detroit district into a fertile Forest Hills farm club. Summoned to the weekend White House to give a tennis lesson to Jacqueline Kennedy. Mrs. Hoxie brusquely chivied Secret Service men into action ("What are all of you just lounging around for? Pick up a racket and start hitting some balls") but reserved her most pungent orders for the First Lady. Barked Teacher Hoxie to Pupil Kennedy: "Keep your hair out of your eyes and your eyes on the ball...
Hand-Made Quality. Graves, like most writers, would profit if prevented by law from talking about his work. He has said, truthfully but with ill-seeming defensiveness: "The obstinate habit I have formed of refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...