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...began its defense of the Davis Cup last week in Sydney, the headlines belonged to the emotional antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best...
Whenever the going got rough, an invariable sequence of events always seemed to overtake Italy's two standout tennis stars: lithe Nicola Pietrangeli would weep, towering Orlando Sirola would laugh, and, sooner or later, both would get beaten. But last week in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Perth, Australia, the emotional Italians, crying and chortling as always, suddenly turned tough under pressure. After losing two matches in a row, they rallied to defeat a favored squad of U.S. youngsters 3-2, thereby earned Italy the right to challenge the proud Australians later this month for the Davis...
...turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, O'Casey could release his anger and compassion alike, could expose the failings of his compatriots in the very act of exhibiting the fortitude. The immemorial heartbreak of For men must work and women must weep was to be mixed with a colder appraisal of the men themselves. They stand forth half-cocked and high-talking patriots, revolver in holster and glass in hand, while slum poverty stares out, and children grow tuberculous and die, and pregnant women are maddened with fear and worry...
...than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...
...must have taken all degrees of decere-bration to have produced the froth that leveled the summit. I weep for the people of Russia, who must trust to such leadership -and for us who must find leaders who can contend with...