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Nayar was in Cedarhurst, Long Island, playing in the Gold Racquet Invitational Squash Tournament...
...Freshman Intercollegiate tournament at the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York, Harvard's Larry Terrell took the title with a final-round victory over Army's George Alcorn...
...rarely seen at the "in" Restaurant-of-the-Month, never swings at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She doesn't play the tables at Vegas or pick up a cue in the billiard room of the Beverly Hills Daisy; where Frank Sinatra bides his time, she abides not. If she isn't at home, she is likely to be found with her four-year-old daughter at Hamburger Hamlet or at the Los Angeles Zoo or at a local art gallery. Her night on the town is the Bolshoi or a concert at the Hollywood Bowl...
Freshman Larry Terrell, who last week succeeded Harvard's two-year title holder, Jose Gonzalas, as Junior National Champion, will play in the Freshman Intercollegiate tournament of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York. John Ince and Peter Abrams are also registered for that tournament, which was won two years ago by Rick Stern, now on the Harvard varsity team...
...reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell...