Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly seemed charged up on Saturday, but not quite enough. With more than 15,000 spectators jamming Center Court, Tanner played superbly before Borg won in five sets, 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. His gambling power game kept Borg off balance, and his thunderball serves bailed him out of numerous trouble spots. But Borg was as relentless as ever, and worked skillfully on Tanner's weakest point, his backhand. After Tanner won a tie breaker to capture the first set, Borg breezed through the second, breaking service twice. Tanner came right back...
...Weber decision in June, which held that employers could give job preference to blacks to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in the work force, the busing cases signal the court's strong support for affirmative action. For blacks, at least, the message is clear. Says Georgetown University Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "With the Warren Court you could say, 'Blacks win.' Now you can begin to say of the Burger Court, 'Blacks...
...court's uncertain course depends largely on how five moderate Justices-Potter Stewart, John Paul Stevens, Byron White, Blackmun and Powell -cast their votes. They are known as the "fluid five" or the "floating center." Explains University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "The Justices in the middle are not 'principle' Justices, which is not to say they are unprincipled -just unpredictable." The only real ideologues on the high bench are Rehnquist on the right and William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall on the left. Brennan, often a dissenter in the past, found himself in the majority...
...B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas New York City's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall get essential support from the rich corporations headquartered in the city, Boston has only a few home-town companies of any size, notably Gillette, Raytheon and Polaroid...
...company of Broadway's Man of La Mancha unexpectedly sold out for twelve weeks, Sack President A. Alan Friedberg stepped up his efforts to renew his lease. This was bad news to Lodge, who had been raising money since 1976 to turn the Music Hall into the Metropolitan Center, a nonprofit performing hall for the dance, opera and orchestral groups that had forsaken Boston. Lodge beat out Friedberg, coming up with the $1.75 million to purchase the 40-year lease, and he claims to have 150 nights booked for a season beginning in November 1980. But $3.5 million worth...