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After Princeton had beaten Harvard Saturday night for the 22nd time in the last 23 meetings, Tiger coach Pete Carril made me an offer...
What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...
...sewers. Agricultural policy has been a disaster; Venezuela imports much of its food from the U.S., Chile and the Caribbean. Inflation (current rate: 13%) persists, and urban street crime is on the rise. Only two weeks ago, the widow of former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela C. Allan Stewart was beaten to death on a Caracas sidewalk...
Fortunately, the discrimination faced by American women is not in any way analagous to the campaign of terror conducted by the South African government. Women in this nation are not systematically tortured, beaten, shot, nor deprived of the right to trial, vote, work, hold public office, marry out of their race, or live in the region of their choice...
Except for the two World Series weeks, NBC has been behind in the ratings all fall. The only consolation has been that, overall, it has beaten CBS. But even that may have been fleeting. In November, according to Arbitron ratings, CBS was marginally ahead. The new programs Silverman will put in may not be better, but they will in general be lighter. "We want to get comedy and a light feel to our network," says Mike Weinblatt, president of NBC Entertainment. "We are looking for young adults, and comedy attracts them. If you look...