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...German Championship of popular forecasts was right as the rain until Stefan Edberg cut in on Boris Becker, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-2. Five years ago at Wimbledon, they opposed each other during the junior championships, and Edberg both beat Becker and won the tournament to nominate himself as the coming star. But the two Australian titles and some $4 million he has earned at 22 have managed to appear paltry next to Becker's back-to-back Wimbledons in 1985 and 1986 and world celebrity...
...exuberant imagination, Becker has somersaulted into almost every tennis vacuum, though especially the one in the States. Connors and John McEnroe go on milking their death scene from Camille; the Connecticut- Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl continues to stand by, waiting for U.S. citizenship; and Becker simply makes everyone smile. Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky. But at the end, Becker gently touched Edberg's golden trophy and charmed people again. "I just wanted to remember how it felt," Boris laughed...
OPERATIONS: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Eileen Bradley (Technology Manager); Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Gail Music (Production Manager); Judith Anne Paul, Joseph J. Scafidi, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Suzi Romanik, L. Rufino- Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam...
OPERATIONS: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Eileen Bradley (Technology Manager); Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Gail Music (Production Manager); Judith Anne Paul, Joseph J. Scafidi, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Suzi Romanik, L. Rufino- Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, * Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam...
...notion of inviting senior citizens to a high school-style prom originated with three students, Jennifer Dell, Nancy Becker and Lori Freeman. About 90 people between 50 and 91 years old, most of whom had missed their own proms because they were in the armed forces, cut a rug to the music of Michael Jackson as well as Benny Goodman. Seventy-five West Bloomfield students volunteered as dates for seniors who had none. Said Dell: "One little man I thought would never stop dancing...