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...ball boy for fear he might trip over his size-13 sneakers and get in the way of the players), he later became known as half of the country's top doubles team -with Bob Lutz, his partner at the University of Southern California. To become a topflight singles player, Smith needed to speed up his ability to cover the court. "I was a high jumper in high school, not a runner," he says. Nonetheless, after putting himself through a daily regimen of exercises and wind sprints, he says, "I'm now nearly as fast as Pancho Gonzales...
...fight is an old one in American Protestantism, but it has grown up anew in the Missouri Synod with Concordia's efforts to build a topflight Scripture faculty. When Preus' investigation team arrived on the Concordia campus, it was stacked with fundamentalists who see the more liberal position as heretical; a number of theologians feared a purge...
...school graduate, regardless of his grades or the university's overburdened facilities. Even students who can barely read at ninth-grade level have been welcomed; C.U.N.Y. is determined to tutor them until they make it through a two-year community college or one of the city's topflight four-year institutions. Deluged with 35,000 freshmen, C.U.N.Y. is holding classes in rented store fronts and trailers; faculty members are taking turns at shared desks, and students are shunning jammed libraries to study in telephone booths...
...prepare for the Judiciary Committee probe and whatever may follow it, Douglas hired a topflight lawyer: Simon H. Rifkind, a former federal judge and the New York attorney who represented Jacqueline Kennedy in her vain attempt to stop publication of William Manchester's book, Death of a President. In a letter to the New York Times written before Douglas hired him, Rifkind opened Douglas' defense by taking sharp issue with Gerald Ford's contention that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history...
...topflight "amateur" like Austria's Karl Schranz, 31, for example, reportedly rakes in close to $50,000 a year. At today's rates, each victory nets him a total bonus of $4,000 from the grateful makers of his skis, boots, bindings, poles and gloves. In addition, he earns a salary as a "technical adviser" for an Austrian ski manufacturer...