Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...
...Paul, 25 (his favorite "bird" is 21-year-old Actress Jane Asher), is a movie addict, loves "the look of London," tools around town in a spiffy blue Aston Martin DB 5. He lives in a high-walled house in the city's prosperous St. John's Wood neighborhood -oddly furnished, for a Beatle, in a tastefully quaint style, including an old-fashioned lace tablecloth on the dining-room table-and has daily bouts of "bashing" at the piano, which he has never quite learned to play...
Most of the contestants in last week's U.S. National Championships were equipped with standard rackets made of laminated wood. But a trio of U.S. players came armed with new "T2000" steel rackets,* designed by France's Rene ("The Crocodile") Lacoste, and marketed in the U.S. by the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Gene Scott, 29, a Manhattan lawyer who never before had gotten past the quarter-finals of any major tournament, astounded the experts by reaching the semifinals before losing to Australia's top-seeded John Newcombe. Clark Graebner, a 23-year-old Ohioan who only...
...permits a faster swing with less effort. "It feels like a feather," says Billie Jean. Scott says the T2000 gives him a faster serve and better control on volleys. To Graebner, the T2000 has therapeutic value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared. The steel racket seems to absorb most of the ball's impact instead of transmitting the shock through the handle to a player...
Died. Katherine Thompson Wood, 74, wealthy Wilmington and Philadelphia society matron and elder sister...