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...first he must act out the grandest trick of all, the biggest piece of action in the 100 years of lawn-tennis history. On the night of Sept. 20 he confronts Billie Jean King, 29, five-time Wimbledon champion and the game's premier flag bearer for women's rights, in a three-sets-out-of-five singles match in the Houston Astrodome. If only two-thirds of the stadium's 46,000 seats are filled-it may be a sellout, though ticket prices go up to $ 100-the contest will still attract the largest crowd ever...
That puts King in a difficult spot. To be the sisterhood's standard bearer in Riggs' circus is to accept a cup she would rather pass. She acknowledges that "the only reason I'm playing him is because Margaret had to go out and play like a donkey." So she is out to avenge Riggs' humiliation of Margaret Court after all, and that rankles. "I mean, if I beat him, what merit does it have? Big deal. But I don't want to lose to this guy. I don't want to lose...
...election. If one overlooks the fact that both of the assumptions implicit in that statement are shaky ones at best, one sees a statement of a loyalty so lofty that it transcends all laws until it falls back on itself of its own weight, destroying both its bearer and its object...
...Harvard is going to win an Ivy match this year, today is the day, because Yale is also bearer of an 0-4 League mark, having run up a record of futility equal to the Crimson's. And a win over Yale would be some consolation for a lost season...
Last year more than 30,000 American students applied for about 13,500 first-year places in medical schools. The competition for admission exists; in condemning Chem 20 for it, The Crimson was following the ancient if somewhat discredited practice of beheading the bearer of bad news. When I last taught Chem 20, the group as a whole comprised the brightest, most highly motivated and best balanced students I have ever seen. Nevertheless, some of the students were poorly prepared, inadequately motivated or lacked natural ability for science, or for some other reason did not come up to a reasonable...