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Perfide Albion is at it again. After an enticing warmup act, of a dozen or so excellent shows, it has sent over a nasty little comedy called There's a Girl in My Soup in the hope that Yanks will buy anything English...
...world," he admits, "but I've been beaten by just about everybody too." He was not even named to the 1967 U.S. Davis Cup team, and the officials at Wimbledon obviously thought no better of him. In the first round, he was matched as a sort of warmup boy for the 1966 winner, Manuel Santana of Spain. Never in Wimbledon history had a defending champion been beaten in the first round...
...best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, stitched together with Old Sailor Chichester's own brief commentary on such dangers as icebergs, scurvy, sea monsters and gales, it is predictably absorbing. Still, it is obviously only a warmup for what Chichester undoubtedly plans as a rousing encore: an account of his own epic voyage...
Zone D last week felt the first warmup. Radar-controlled B-52 bombers came over in ten waves at 30,000 ft. to rain down fire on the triple-canopy jungle concealing enemy movements. They dropped magnesium incendiary bomblets, which fell first in large clusters, then broke apart at 8,000 ft. and burst into flame as they plunged into a jungle already dried tinder-brown in places by chemical defoliants. For hours afterwards, dense smoke rolled 15,000 ft. into the air above yet another portion of the Viet Cong's rapidly shrinking sanctuaries...
Some varsity teams around here get two warmup contests before they have to take on tough opposition, but there's no such luxury for the Harvard soccer team. Three days after opening the season against Tufts, the Crimson booters entertain Amherst on the field adjoining the tennis courts...