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...Dennis Ralston: the national indoor tennis championship, by beating Britain's Mike Sanfjster, 22, in four hard-fought sets with his smoking ground shots and slicing service at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Though Ralston, 20, is considered one of the best U.S. tennis prospects in years, his incendiary temper has often been his undoing; his racket slamming and blue language in a 1961 Davis Cup match against Mexico earned him a four-month suspension. This time, he slipped only twice, bellowing out "Concentrate!" and "You idiot!" at himself when he fluffed a couple of easy shots...
When the musicians of the Leningrad Philharmonic take the stage they look a little like a guards regiment on parade. They march on from opposite wings in cadenced step, and at times all 106 of them sit down in a single movement. Seated, they sometimes look to the casual observer about as animated as the tenants of a wax museum. But the appearance is deceiving. The Leningrad, now on its first tour of the U.S., is one of the world's great orchestras...
Hoofing & History. When it came time for West Point, lazy Student Kemper crammed hard, came out sixth in a field of some 100 candidates for presidential appointment. At the Point, he was a good leader-manager of varsity lacrosse, superintendent of the post Sunday school, captain of his regiment and class president. He did well in history, a fact that counted later. An avid dancer, he hoofed in the annual Hundredth Night Show, loved to go out shagging with Peg at nearby Vassar...
...Service helicopter over the trees. When Kennedy eventually landed, he needed only to smile to draw a swelling roar. The motorcade drove six miles through streets lined with what Baltimore police called the biggest political crowd in the city's history-the estimate was 175.000. In the Fifth Regiment Armory, on the site of the hall in which Woodrow Wilson was nominated in 1912. Kennedy was greeted by an honor guard of Negro R.O.T.C. cadets, a band from St. Mary's School, and the Ladies Swiss Embroidery Workers...
...Another politician who remembers Vimy: Prime Minister Harold jNIacmillan, whose Guards regiment was all but wiped out at nearby Loos...