Word: wim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Newcombe, the world's No. 1 -ranked male player and the defending Wimbledon champion, says that he will defend his title even if he has to turn pro to do so. California's Billie Jean King, who won this year's ladies' crown at Wim bledon, will be back, too: "I favor open tennis," she says realistically and practi cally, "and I would be happy to play it." Arthur Ashe, the No. 2-ranked...
Seeds came up weeds at Wimbledon last week. The All-England Tennis Championships had barely begun when three of the eight seeded players in the men's singles were eliminated. And by whom? By three Yanks - all of whom had been completely ignored by Wim- bledon's seeding committee, and two of whom were members of the U.S. Da vis Cup team that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly...
LOST CITIES OF ASIA by Wim Swaan. 175 pages. Putnam. $15. All five of the lost cities that are shown and described here died in battle, some several times over. Angkor in Cambodia is world-famous, but the others, though less well known, are well worth the discovery. Sigiriya, a mountain fortress in Ceylon, was abandoned after King Kassapa, disgraced in battle, committed suicide. Anuradhapura and Polonnarawa, also in Ceylon, were capital cities until their destruction by Tamil invaders; Pagan, Burma's pagoda city, gleamed with golden cupolas, bright frescoes and a forest of stupas before it was overwhelmed...
...unexpected effect of casting Visser 't Hooft in a new role-underground leader. Even before the war began, rescuing Jews and others from Hitler's Germany was one of his prime concerns. Karl Barth once told him of an imprisoned pastor Barth was especially worried about, and Wim remembered a beer-drinking session he had had in 1933 with a blackshirted Nazi who turned out to be Heinrich Himmler. So Churchman Visser 't Hooft wrote Nazi Himmler. recalling the incident, and succeeded in having the pastor released...
...fellow countryman, was one of history's greatest painters and had contributed so much to the world of art. But as he learned more about him, he realized that Rembrandt had done an extraordinary number of Biblical paintings. "He had a certain conception of the Bible," says Wim. "I became interested in what he was trying to say." But he found no books that told him, so the World Council's Visser 't Hooft wrote one himself: Rembrandt and the Gospel...