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Parents nonpracticing Jews; he was baptized Presbyterian . . . Wife Eileen has Ph.D. in education; three daughters . . . Liked to gamble occasionally in student days (won the money for his wedding at Las Vegas), but now relaxes by reading (foreign affairs, economics), swinging a tennis racquet, skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: JIMMY'S TALENT FILE | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Dame and Michigan State practice it as part of their training programs. Illinois Governor-elect James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Latest Racquet | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Whooshing Sphere. Racquetball was invented by a Connecticut tennis pro in the late '40s when he substituted a sawed-off tennis racquet for the wooden paddleball racquet and put strings in the handball-derived game. Played on a four-wall court 20 ft. wide, 40 ft. long and 20 ft. high, the 2½-in. ball must be returned to the front wall before it bounces twice. Floor, ceiling* and walls are fair play for the whooshing sphere; the ultimate shot-the handball-style "kill" -is a ball aimed at the right angle of front wall and floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Latest Racquet | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...crowded confines of the racquetball court, beginners need not chase errant shots as tennis players must, and singles, not doubles matches are the rule. The ball comes zinging back like a small cannon ball, and an opponent's 18-in. stringed racquet can be a hazard, often inflicting racquetball's most distinctive mark-waffle-face. It is hell in a very small place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Latest Racquet | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...wind blew for the Radcliffe tennis team yesterday, as the racquet-women came down on the hard side of a tough contest with Tufts, losing...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Racquetwomen Battle Tufts, Weather; Lose to Both | 10/15/1976 | See Source »

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