Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means successive victories in the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in a single season, and it was first accomplished by Don Budge in 1938. No one could do it again until 1962, when a nimble, lean (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) left-hander from Australia named Rod Laver swept the four tournaments...
Psychological Difference. "Concentration" is fast becoming a sports column cliche, but it is the best word the tennis world has found to sum up the psychological difference between one finely trained, fundamentally expert player and another. Says Pancho Gonzales: "Rod is the most disciplined of them all. What I admire most about him is his determination and concentration. He just wears you down...
Married. Claire Bloom, 38, stage and screen actress, currently starring with ex-Husband Rod Steiger in 3 into 2 Won't Go; and Hillard Elkins, 39, producer of off-Broadway's nudest new revue, Oh! Calcutta!; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the process, he gave up his first home run of the year, a line shot by Minnesota Second Baseman Rod Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew's 30th of the season, blasted the way to an 11-5 victory. Last week Pinchhitter Rich...
...film will probably be noted less for its deliberate ironies than for its unconscious one. Last month, after seven years of marriage, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom were divorced...