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...help dramatize the Negro's 1963 revolution, leaders of civil rights organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize...
...down." She made up for that defeat by besting Billie Jean in straight sets in this year's Wimbledon final, running out the last game in typical slash-and-smash Smith fashion: two booming sideline forehands, a perfectly placed passing shot in the corner, and a lunging, lashing volley that kicked up a puff of chalk as it kissed the base line and bounded out of reach...
...China, whose delegation's arrival in Moscow was downplayed by the Soviet government and deliberately ignored by the Soviet press, fired its own volley of insults. For the first time, Peking claimed absolute equality with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and warned the Kremlin in an elaborate simile: "No genuine unity can be achieved by an attitude that allows the magistrate to burn down houses, while forbidding the common people even to light their lamps...
...Doug Walter, today's match marked the end of a three-year tennis career during which he was always one of the varsity's best players, and consistently one of its least heralded. He won few matches by big scores, and he didn't play the big-serve-and-volley game that spectators like to watch...
Finally, in the twenty-first game, Yale broke Niederhoffer's serve on a smashing forehand volley by Neely, and then held Nealy's serve to end the match...