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India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...snow before a crowd of lepers. With that lovely timing for which he is worshipped, Quouguou waits until the lepers have drawn very close to the writhing figure of M. Tati, their bells clanging. Then he cuts abruptly to the bells of the church. We follow the bell rope until, at its end we discover, to our spiritual delight, the dangling body of Mme de Gaulle, her face almost hidden, but unmistakable, under a carpet of ants. With a holy grace Quouquou dissolves to Colombey-les-Deux Eglises where, ironically enough M. de Gaulle is praying for his wife...
...well-manicured garden, near a tame sea: "where the islands are dressed to the nines." The reader of the advertisement is assured that "International night owls fill the Bahamas with merriment. VIPs from Europe and America make this their watering place. Wits and Beauties. Princes and tycoons. No velvet rope ever enclosed a more glittering assemblage...
Against him stood the champion from Idaho, Dean Oliver, 33, who grew up as a field hand, never saw a big-time rodeo until he was 19. Sleeping on the ground and skipping meals to save money, Oliver taught himself how to handle a rope, won the first of his five Rodeo Cowboys Association championships in 1955. With $26,656 of prize money won on the rodeo circuit so far this year, Oliver was recognized as king of the ropers everywhere but in Texas. Said one show-me Texan: "We been followin' Jim Bob's tracks through...
...distinctive personality, and that division managers have wide autonomy. Says one Wrall Streeter: "Genesco gives a lot of leeway to the divisions, and Maxey runs around ready to throw the book at them if they don't perform." Echoes a Genesco vice president: "He gives you enough rope not only to hang yourself but everyone else as well...