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...West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest player on the men's circuit this summer has been Guillermo Vilas, 22, from Mar del Plata, Argentina. During one hot streak, Vilas won 29 consecutive matches. Mexican Raul Ramirez, 21, seeded 16th, has won $60,000 since June...
...have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player of all time. His government gave him a permanent position as a roving diplomat, transferring him to a post in whatever city his next tournament was scheduled...
...last week the generals were swinging the economy toward a rigidly conservative course. To carry out its program, the junta has appointed three right-leaning foes of Allende: Raul Saez, who was made special adviser for overall economic planning; Fernando Leniz, who became Economics Minister; and Orlando Saenz, adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
...eleven weeks ago, he has wavered between spells of puzzling inertia and bursts of curious action. Toward the end of his initial 23 days of illness and introspection, Peron sacked his "servant" from the presidency. Yet the master did not assume the post himself. Instead, he appointed another surrogate, Raul Lastiri, whose major claim to minor fame was his relationship (son-in-law) to Perón's personal secretary and astrologer, José López Rega...
...stake in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie are the attenuated meals that six characters (Fernando Ray, Bulle Ogier, Raul Frankeur, Delphine Segrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stephane Audran) never finish. A misunderstanding--guests arriving a day in advance for a dinner party--is the movie's premise and from it follow seven meals, each real or fantasy, all of which are interrupted by events, again either actual or imagined. The causes for the disruptions are as absurd as they are unexplained--the hosts making love while their guests wait, a funeral, a French military battalion, imprisonment for drug trafficking...