Word: bouting
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...time the U.S. Open came around, scarcely anyone doubted that Graf would romp. Her task was made even easier when Navratilova exited prematurely in the quarterfinals after a fabulous seesawing bout, probably the fortnight's best, with Zina Garrison. It was a particularly melancholy end for Navratilova, who during 1983-84 won six consecutive majors and contends that she too has won the slam. Few, however, agree: the slam, like all classic stories, must adhere to certain unities of time and space, the calendar year being one of them...
...manipulative wife and mother-in-law, Ruth Roper (who, by the way, has sued Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield for infecting her with an undisclosed venereal disease--a fact SI deemed highly relevant to the Tyson story), that he hasn't been getting the proper amount of training for his bout with Michael Spinks tomorrow night...
...hectic, high-stakes atmosphere of what came to be called the lost weekend, the two leaders got into a bout of one-upmanship over who was willing to go further toward total nuclear disarmament. In the end, the meeting collapsed when Gorbachev tried to get Reagan to agree to confine SDI research, development and testing to the laboratory -- a restriction Reagan saw as aimed at "killing" his most cherished program...
Equally remarkable is David Chandruss, 25, of Chicago, who was found to have the disease nine years ago. He has recovered from pneumonia without the aid of medication five times. After a bout last year with two serious infections, he was put on interferon, which is supposed to boost the immune system but may cause pain. Now he is on AZT. "You have to have a cause to live for," declares Chandruss, who devotes much of his time to caring for other AIDS sufferers. He lives at a novitiate of the Alexian Brothers, a Roman Catholic order that runs...
...cocktail" every four hours. Thus far he has tried interferon, aerosol pentamidine, which is used to treat deadly Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and AZT. He has also received dideoxycytidine, an antiviral medication. The treatment left him with tearing facial pains. Last week he was back in the hospital after a bout...