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...Secretary is astonished to watch the President develop into a cryptofascist who plans to undermine the legislative arm of the Government and suspend elections−"just this once." The Secretary joins the Vice President (Willard Waterman), the President's spiritual counsel−the Rev. Jimmy Williams (Joseph Sirola)−and other advisers in a plot to remove the Chief Executive by literally blasting him out of office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Presidential Folly | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...lopsided score merely hinted at the humiliation of Italy's defeat. Not until the deciding first three matches were over did bumbling Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola cadge a single set from their relentless Aussie tormentors. The crucial doubles match lasted only an hour; Pietrangeli and Sirola won only nine games-the worst Challenge Round showing since 1919, when Britain's doubles players dropped all but two games to Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...week Emerson got Australia off to a 1-0 lead by trouncing Pietrangeli 8-6. 6-4, 6-3. Then he teamed with Fraser to win the doubles, and rounded out his week's work with a crushing 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Sirola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Paced by weepy Nicola Pietrangelo, 28, who won both his singles match and teamed with bubbly Orlando Sirola to win the doubles. Italy's Davis Cuppers swept past a weak U.S. team. 4-1, earned the right to meet Australia in the challenge round for the second year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Desperate Racket. Against the Italians last week, Fraser and Laver were devastating. In the opening singles match, Fraser blasted the bravely grinning Sirola off the court. 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Next, Laver deftly whizzed shots past the desperate racket of Pietrangeli to win as he pleased, 8-6, 6-4, 6-3. The following day, Fraser and slick Roy Emerson, 24, won the third and deciding match by briskly disposing of the Italians in the doubles. 10-8, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. By the third day, the Aussies had routed the Italians four matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Beaters Down Under | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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