Word: austin
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...plus a business manager, a press agent and a sometime coach named Billie Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator Bud Collins, "the best American player since Billie Jean." That accolade puts her above the likes of Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin and Capriati's friend and role model, Chris Evert, the sport's winningest player of all time...
...generation Texan, he personally leads roundups and spring brandings of the 900 Brangus cattle on his 43-sq.-mi. Happy Cove Ranch in the Big Bend country. He concedes that he once decked a disgruntled ex-employee, explaining, "There are times when you don't call a lawyer." Observes Austin political consultant George Christian: "He typifies what a lot of people think Texas ought...
Caro deflates for good the legend Johnson puffed up of himself as a war hero. Equally damaging are the author's investigations into the source of what would become L.B.J.'s fortune. Johnson always insisted that the purchase of Austin radio station KTBC and the lucrative empire it spawned were solely due to the good business sense of his wife Lady Bird. That, Caro proves, was not the story. Congressman Johnson pulled strings, twisted regulatory arms to obtain a better broadcast frequency and more power, and involved himself with % all aspects of the business, including pressuring advertisers and hiring announcers...
...about nine hours a week, will incur half the risk. Exposure varies dramatically with altitude and proximity to the poles. A year spent flying the great-circle route from New York City to Tokyo will subject a crew to 30 times the risk of a year of flying between Austin and Houston...
...crime and the plight of the homeless were not enough, New Yorkers now have something really big to worry about: Is Mario Cuomo going to hell? From his Albany County jail cell, where he had been serving ten days for taking part in a militant antiabortion protest, Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York recently warned that the state's Democratic Governor "is in danger of going to hell if he dies tonight" unless he changed his stance on abortion. Cuomo, a Roman Catholic, accepts his church's teaching that abortion is wrong. But he argues that it would...