Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plaintive Plea. By week's end, the parade of pro and con witnesses had some Senators bobbing their heads from side to side faster than spectators at a Wimbledon tennis match. Admitting his confusion, California Republican Thomas Kuchel addressed a plaintive appeal to Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Dr. Willard Libby...
Margaret has been beaten since-but only by herself. "Nerves," the experts called it when she lost to the U.S.'s Billie Jean Moffit at Wimbledon last year, after winning the Australian, French and Italian titles and going undefeated for ten months. Losing at Wimbledon, Margaret says, was "the biggest disappointment of my life. I let a lot of people 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...
...race relations, went on to become one of the Vatican's most effective diplomats abroad, serving in Communist Rumania (from which he was expelled in 1950 on trumped-up charges), then as papal nuncio to Ireland before moving in 1954 to London; of a heart attack; in Wimbledon...
...seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next, little Miss Moffit was the darling of Wimbledon last week...
...Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands during a 1960 Davis Cup match in Australia. In 1961 McKinley fought his way into the Wimbledon finals, only to lose to Australia's Rod Laver...