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This Saturday he hits the richest pay dirt in tennis history ? the battle with Newcombe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Encouraged by the success of last February's nationally televised winner-take-all match between Connors and Rod Laver (which Jimmy won by a score of 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5), CBS is paying $600,000 for the rights to broadcast live this second "Heavyweight Championship of Tennis." Caesars Palace is adding a purse of $250,000 plus $50,000 for expenses. The sale of foreign broadcast rights should yield another $100,000. The approximate...
...Sometimes he will slow play by bouncing the ball ten or twelve times before he serves. Last year he even leaped into the stands to go after a boisterous fan. What the public does not see or hear can be just as livid. As spectators in Las Vegas gave Rod Laver a standing ovation before their February match, Connors was standing next to Segura, his mother and Evert, howling back obscenity after obscenity...
Compost Heap. Since then the magazine has served up a steady fare of amiably instructive articles on such topics as how to raise pigs, make maple syrup, build a compost heap and install a lightning rod. "How-to articles are our bread and butter," says Editor Ketchum. Interleaved between the how-tos are thoughtful pieces on such issues as energy policy, the morality of hunting and the future of farming. For all its bucolic content, the magazine is dressed up in striking contemporary design that earned it last week's award...
When Yale and Harvard last met on the baseball diamond, April 20 of last year for a doubleheader in New Haven, it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The Eli's Don Gallagher played Rod Serling, walking the leadoff Crimson batter in each of the seven innings of the first game (ending with a grand total of twelve walks) and pitching a no-hitter, Yale won the game...
...found the reason for Gill's tardiness in the church members' failure to achieve "sinless perfection"; the members bow their heads meekly during tirades on this theme at weekly worship. The congregation's faith is summed up by one of the interim preachers, Viet Nam Veteran Rod Greene, 28, who says the idea that Gill "will not return is not a possibility to me. If it takes five or ten years, I will still be here...