Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fifth set, more than three hours after both players began running in the broiling sun, it is will that wins the final points. Borg is will made flesh. He says: "It does not matter if I am so tired that I do not think I can take one more step, I will not give up that point. I am too stubborn. I will keep going...
...fifth round, Leonard began scoring with combinations and occasional left hooks. But almost every time he landed, Duran came up with a return salvo. Leonard rallied gamely in the final rounds and easily won the 15th. But afterward Duran said he never had any doubts. "I knew I had won the fight," he declared. "I was more of a man." He certainly was on Friday night, but for thousands of fans the verdict is not yet final. They can hardly wait for a rematch...
...remaining three rounds. His score after each round was a new tournament record, and he needed every stroke to stave off the direct challenge of his surprising playing partner, Japan's Isao Aoki. Nicklaus, who admitted afterward that he too had come to doubt his ability, birdied the final two holes, nerveless as of old. His winning score of 272 (to Aoki's 274) broke by three strokes the U.S. Open record he had shared with Lee Trevino*. While a crowd of 25,000 chanted his name, Nicklaus acknowledged: "This is the best of them all." Trevino himself...
...tried to retrain Harper's eye on important public issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from one's freedom to say what one damn well...
Slowly she disabuses herself of this notion. The final link in her chain of reasoning is her youngest brother. Facing the draft, he enlists in the Navy, prepared to desert the moment he is required to inflict pain or death. He goes to Viet Nam and sees the Orient for the first time, reversing the trip made by so many of his forebears. And he comes home, not to China but to California, where, as an uncle had once shouted, "we belong." At the very end, Kingston resolves to "watch the young men who listen...