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Jack Barnaby has quite a racket going. Last week he exchanged the one labeled squash for the one under the heading of tennis, and in so doing, with all due apologies to robins and dandelions, he ushered in yet another spring to Cambridge...
...finals of the singles competition, two of Barnaby's best battled it out for the national title. Victor Niederhoffer '64, who had never picked up a squash racket before he came to Harvard and Barnaby, outsmarted Peter Briggs '73 in a mere three games...
...Money Player is scandalous. When he was not involved in grand or petty larceny, the self-styled "Bad Boy of Table Tennis" could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across...
...number of people overall who are involved in smuggling, down to ped dling the contraband, probably runs into the tens of thousands. But the government hopes to break the back of the racket by taking the gang bosses out of circulation. Said Prime Minister Gandhi last week: "Nobody, however big and influential, will be spared if he is found involved in smuggling or hoarding...
...Kasa-vubu, a button-down black literary critic, hallucinates that he is Richard Wright's illiterate murderer Bigger Thomas. Reed even brings back those veteran moochers from Amos 'n' Andy, the Kingfish and Andrew H. Brown, now trying to cash in on the street-corner Hindu racket. "Andy," says the Kingfish, "I think it's about time we went into the Karmel bizness...