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...slow clay courts. As his career soared he teamed with glowering Ion Tiriac to make Rumania a formidable threat* in big-league tennis. Before last week, Nastase was acknowledged as the world's best on clay. His victory over Ashe-coupled with his close battle against U.S. Champion Stan Smith at Wimbledon last July-proves that he is a top contender for the position last held by Rod Laver: the game's premier player on any surface...
None of the various sequences in the film relates to the others. Cole at one point visits an old man named Stan. Pinsent admitted that the principal reason for writing the visit into the film was to show Cole in a compassionate light, and to redeem him for his earlier nastiness. Stan, played by Will Geer, is also meant to demonstrate the continuity of the roughneck tradition in Newfoundland--in his youth he was supposed to have been a real hell-raiser. But he only comes across as pathetic...
...Rosewall's drinking is confined to an occasional glass of beer. Stan Smith's most colorful expression is "Aw, shoot." Rod Laver does not even smoke. The tennis world has, in fact, sorely lacked an outstanding male player with personality to match since the heyday of dashing, temperamental Pancho Gonzales. Now there is a promising candidate for Pancho's old role. He is Breezy-Mannered Bachelor Bob Lutz, who last week became the first American in ten years to win the U.S. Professional Tennis Championship...
...ninth birthday, when his father gave him a junior-size racket, a certificate for twelve lessons and a pat on the back. As a youngster in Southern California, he won regional and national singles titles. Then he entered the University of Southern California and became best known as Stan Smith's doubles partner. The pair won the national collegiate championships in 1967 and 1968; also in 1968 they took the U.S. Open and amateur titles and the first of three successive Davis Cup victories. Joining Texas Promoter Lamar Hunt's pro troupe in 1971, Lutz was no sudden...
...Democratic Convention last week was that of Joseph Volz of the Washington Daily News. Having just learned that two men carrying guns had been arrested in front of McGovern headquarters, Volz rushed to phone Washington and dictate his story. Instead of a stenographer, he got City Editor Stan Felder: "Joe, you won't have to dictate this one. The paper's out of business." Volz hung up and went in search of a drink...