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TENNIS: GAME OF MOTION by Eugene Scott. 256 pages. Crown. $14.95. Anyone suffering from tennis toe or tennis elbow should not buy this book. Even a swift shuffle through it will make them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do it. Whether they show Rod Laver smashing a serve, Stan Smith straining for a backhand drive, or Billie Jean King pulverizing a forehand volley, the photographs communicate the power, grace and sheer ferocity of top-level tennis, in kinetic color and black and white. The supporting text is heavy with...
Vietvets spoke of "toe-poppers," "daisy cutters" and "dragon's teeth" -all antipersonnel maiming explosives that they had used in Viet Nam. Anthony Russo, who helped to make the Pentagon papers public, recalled that, as the war escalated, he once took a grenade to the computer room of the Rand Corporation. "I wanted to throw it in there," he testified. "Had I been younger, I think I would have done...
Columbia fumbled the kick-off and Harvard got the ball back on the Lion 12. Holt came back in and on third and seven tossed a short lob to junior halfback Steve Dart at the five. Dart took it in for the score. Tetirick's toe put Harvard on the half century mark...
...caused me to like Sally was her defiant air when she was around normal adults. She would look over her shoulder at whatever adult happened to be around, grimace at the sight of them, stick her ass out at them in an emphatic sort of way, and then tip-toe...
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's career as a third-grade teacher in Jacksonville, Fla., was halted the day after it started by a book cart that fell on her foot and broke her toe. Now, two years after the accident, Julie, who holds a master's in education, is returning to work as a $10,000-a-year editor for four children's magazines owned by Curtis Publishing Co. A White House spokesman said that Julie decided to get a job when she realized that her husband David Eisenhower, who is entering law school at George Washington University...