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Doubles, which won the Princeton match for Harvard, spelled defeat against Penn. Hamlin' serve and Reese's overall power was too much slam-bang for Steels and Peckham, who bowed...
...amateur tennis and turned pro in 1963 was respect for his elders. The cocky, carrot-topped Aussie lefthander, then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin on the ball...
Laboratory Search. The search for this hardy life should not be carried out in a hasty, slam-bang manner, said the report. The first step, though, can be carried out at once: laboratory work aimed at determining just what kinds of life are chemically possible. If chemical systems are found that might be the basis of novel, non-earthly forms of life, the instruments sent to Mars should be equipped to look for them as well as for familiar life...
...resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time until he uncoiled to slam a blur of white past Chuang for a point. After four games, the score was tied; in the final game, Li leaped into a 10-6 lead before Chuang rallied to tie it up again at 15-all. Then, possibly by prearrangement, Li's game fell apart. Abandoning his entire offense...
...well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect..." Yet even before he finished this reflection, Bundie felt something slam into him and knock him off his feet. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a small foreign-looking man with dark glasses scramble up from the ground and rush over...