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Next to their end-of-the-world expectations and their refusal to accept blood transfusions, the Jehovah's Witnesses are most noted for their dogged door-to-door evangelism. For more than three decades, that has paid off with one of the steadiest records of growth in Western religion. Yet according to the Witnesses' new Yearbook, the number of active members in the U.S. dropped by 2.6% (to 530,374) for 1977, the first decrease since World War II. Worldwide, the Witnesses, who often suffer persecution overseas, declined by 1%. Besides that, the number of baptisms of new U.S. converts...
Dave Bing, who was supposedly finished with basketball after last season, but has come on to be the steadiest performer in this unsteady season, led the Celtics in scoring with 25 points and quarterbacked Boston 'til nobody was crying at the absence of Jo Jo White...
Meanwhile, virtually all alone in the cage, John Hynes stopped 21 shots and played his steadiest game in nets in a long time. Harvard is now 7-4 in the ECAC and travels to Chestnut Hill, tomorrow in hopes of avenging an early season 7-0 shutout to Boston College...
Fascinated by that episode of psyching, Foote began to muse on the emotional pitfalls that can undo even the steadiest of players, and decided that the subject was ripe for investigation. Since then, with the help of tennis-conscious TIME correspondents across the nation, he has been busy surveying the social phenomena of the tennis scene. The result: this week's cover story, which Foote wrote. He tries to play tennis twice a week and describes himself as "an occasional shotmaker with an indomitable will to lose...
...toughest task is faced by Turishcheva. Though the steadiest performer on her team-and the winner of the World Cup in London last fall-the Merited Master of Sport from Rostov-on-Don will be hard-pressed to repeat her '72 victory. She is still not fully recovered from a vertebral injury suffered last summer. A masseur will treat her daily in Canada. She recently observed: "In gymnastics, if you don't feel right, you might as well forget performing." Last month her training pace at the Palace of Sports in Minsk was up to five hours...