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...opening tennis competition set the pace. Bowler Jim Stefanich, playing the first set of his life, began by serving seven straight faults. His opponent, Elvin Hayes, the 6-ft. 9-in. pivotman for the Baltimore Bullets, had never played a set either, but managed to win 7-5 because "I've hit the ball up against a wall a lot." Quarterback Johnny Unitas confessed that "I haven't held a racket in my hand since high school," then proved it by losing 6-0 to the New York Rangers' right wing Rod Gilbert. "I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten for the Show | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten for the Show | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: Chaco Echoes | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Franco's Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich promptly fired all the old regime's Ambassadors, Ministers and diplomatic attaches abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Peace Without Victory (Cont'd) | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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