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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joyce Decius led the fireworks for the Crimson squad in the field events, winning the discus (94 ft, 6in.), the shot (34 ft, 4in.), and placing second in the javelin (56 ft. 4 in.), In addition, she ran the first leg of the 4 x 110 relay, which beat Brown with a time of 61.0 seconds...
Like Newcombe, Connors is adept at mixing strokes. "When a guy's playing Jimmy," says Pancho, "he doesn't know what to expect. Jimmy will stay back and play base line, then rush the net. He can lob you or beat you down the alley with a winner. He's impossible to predict." Much of the credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently...
...outbursts are calculated. "He's two completely different people on and off the court," says Evert. "The madder he gets, the better he plays. Jimmy can't beat someone he likes. He has to hate the person he's playing." Connors admits that he thrives on antagonism. "I like to have fans against me," he says. "I want to do everything I can to get them against me more. When they're yelling at me, I really get into the match. I guess I'm trying to show them that no matter how much they hate me, they have...
...alienated most of his fellow pros. "He ain't one of the boys," says Arthur Ashe. "Right now he's sorely misguided. We hardly say hello." As a group, the world's top players are almost unanimously for Newcombe. "Never will I root so hard for an Australian to beat an American," admits one U.S. player. Their dislike for Connors is based only in part on his court behavior. They also resent the ways in which he has thumbed his nose at the tennis establishment. Items...
...exchange is financed by several small grants from foundations; it has four full-time staff members, four telephones, and an information bank of 30,000 file cards that list the names and numbers of prospective students and teachers interested in more than 2,000 subjects-including such off-beat avocations as fire eating, flying saucers and fox hunting. Says Vice Chairman Denis Detzel: "The calls are an excellent way of keeping track of what people are into." When former President Nixon went to China, for example, dozens of people called who wanted to learn Chinese. Lately there has been...