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...Pasarell retaliated by breaking Ashe's serve. And after that, both men held on steadily until, with the core 8-7 and Ashe serving, Charlito rattled off four straight points-the last on a cross-court backhand passing shot that Ashe could only watch go by as he shook his head in frustration...
That loss bolstered Penn's confidence and shook Harvard badly. "Psychologically, it was the end for us," said Crimson coach Edo Marion...
Urban Emphasis. Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller, so nervous at his first inauguration that his hands shook and-as he admitted-he could "hardly talk," asked for basic revisions in the state's 1874 constitution, and proposed a thorough, professional study of state operations, which are now hindered by an incredible total of 187 boards and commissions. As if to make the Republican Governor's job of managing and coordinating the various boards that much harder, outgoing Governor Orval Faubus packed them with 93 last-minute appointments...
...J.F.K. is described as chewing out Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh for wrongly forecasting cool weather in Texas. He orders Jackie to wear "simple" clothes to "show these Texans [original version: "those rich Texas broads"] what good taste really is." While making a speech in Houston, Kennedy's hands shook so violently that they seemed palsied. "To his audiences," writes Manchester, "his easy air seemed unstudied. The illusion of spontaneity was almost perfect; only his hands would have betrayed him, and he was careful to keep them out of sight...