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...while the gallery of 6,500 partisan fans shouted "Hai, Ili-uta!" ("Go, little Hie!"). Nastase, an army lieutenant and the closest thing Rumania has to a matinee idol, ran the gamut of his storied antics. He danced back and forth while waiting for a serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded to a Nastase charge at the net with a soft lob that landed on the baseline...
...rules of bicycle polo are similar to the traditional version, with four players on each side, all trying to swat the white wooden ball between the opposing team's goal posts. Pith helmets or padded caps are required. But the mallets are half-size with 30-in. handles, the field is only a third as large, and a player is limited to three successive hits (compared with the unlimited number in regulation polo). For girls' teams, seldom seen in pony polo, the braless look is de rigueur...
...second thoughts. In his U.S. pro debut he met Barry MacKay on a canvas court that had been spread across the undulating wood planking covering the Boston Garden ice-hockey rink. "Trying to return Barry's big serve on that bumpy court," recalls Laver, "was like trying to swat jackrabbits with a broom. 'Jesus,' I thought, 'so this is the pro tennis tour...
...shin by her four-year-old, for example, should not react with a hypocritical mixture of hidden venom and saccharin: "We don't kick people, do we? Say you are sorry, darling." Instead, she should vent her feelings honestly and shout at the child "or even swat...
According to police, four Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) men knocked on the door, announced who they were and set to work at once with the battering ram. The door burst open on the third swing. In the police version, the SWAT team stumbled into a hail of automatic-weapons fire; the Panthers insist that the police opened fire first. It was nearly an hour before newsmen arrived, and when they did, police kept them more than two blocks away. "The fury of the gun battle was right out of Viet Nam," reports TIME Correspondent Martin Sullivan. "Hundreds of rounds...