Word: racquets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising Competition. Isaacs, low-spoken and affable, is very much a part of the Boston establishment: his clubs include the Somerset, the Dedham Country and Polo and the Tennis & Racquet. He lives with his wife, who is a portrait painter, and their two children on a 500-acre farm near Boston. Besides his M.I.T. duties, he serves on several boards, carefully cultivates the fund's ties with the business community. Though he feels that rising competition is one of the main problems he will face as chairman, he also sees in it a bright side for M.I.T. The entry...
Every time a squash player graduates from Harvard, Barnaby faces just that situation. He has to develop a replacement from among players who never saw a squash racquet before coming to Harvard, or prep school graduates whose experience is at best limited...
Yoshi Akabane (4) hits the ball softly, doesn't play a fiercely agressive game, and waits for his opponent to make errors. Saturday he was able to outwait Amherst's Al Wilde, 6-4, 6-2, in the day's longest singles match. Yoshi doesn't look like a racquet whiz, but as one court side observer put it, "He beats more good tennis players that...
...didn't Vic Niederhoffer win the national squash championship this weekend? One reason, of course, was Henri Salaun, who had won three national titles before Niederhoffer ever picked up a squash racquet; Salaun squeaked past Vic in five thrilling games in the tournament's semifinal round...
Earlier in the vacation period, Niederhoffer whipped Amherst's Tom Poor in three straight games to win the New York Racquet and Tennis Club's Invitational Tournament. It was the second year in a row that the Crimson star won the tourney, which brings together all the best college players in the East...