Word: slots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clive Kileff, filling in for injured Dave Benjamin in the top slot, had little trouble out-stroking M.I.T.'s Bill Petrick, 6-0, 6-1. In the number two match, Chum Steele stopped Paul Ruby, 6-4, 6-2, after momentary difficulties adjusting to Harvard's slow-surfaco courts. Captain Dean Peckham (three) blitzed Eric...
Walter Cronkite, who holds down the same time slot at CBS, gets more per minute ($24,500) but only runs four minutes of commercials on every half-hour show. Thus Cronkite will gross about $25.5 million next year, tops at least for his network. Says one NBC spokesman: "Unless ABC puts Peyton Place on five nights a week, Huntley-Brinkley has no competition...
Other returning lettermen are juniors Charles Hawkins, Wayne Thornebrough, and Mike Millis. Hawkins picked up a 6-5 record last year at number four, and should hold down the fourth or fifth slot again this year. Thornebrough and Millis will probably be fighting for the number seven spot...
...Captain Dean Peckham, who moved up from eight to number six last year just in time to thrash Princeton's highly-touted Lee Rawls, 6-0, 6-1. Last fall he defeated teammate Chauncy Steele in a challenge match to take over the varsity’s third slot...
...England to the U.S. about ten years ago, but only in the last year or so have they moved out of the hobby shops and the subteen set to become a full-scale way of life. Epicenter of the new wave is California, where there are now about 300 slot shops, as the racing centers are called, and in the San Francisco area alone, there are at least nine tournaments every weekend. Just in the past year, 20 new tracks have opened in Phoenix, 25 in Chicago. The East has yet to feel the full impact, but without doubt...