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...year long readers contributed an avalanche of Man of the Year suggestions. Richard Nixon received the most votes - both as hero and villain. Other choices ranged from Chicken Tycoon Frank Perdue and Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali to the beagle on our recent pet cover (on the grounds that the U.S. is going to the dogs). Within TIME, the process of selection began in early October when the managing editor invited other editors and bureau chiefs to submit nominations. A remarkable degree of consensus resulted: along with a number of New York-based editors, 18 bureau chiefs round the world mentioned...
Move over, Howard Cosell. "I don't want to be just a tennis player," said Billie Jean King, 31, last week. The five-time Wimbledon singles champ and four-time Forest Hills singles winner who in 1971 became the first woman athlete ever to earn more than $100,000 a year announced that she had won a two-year contract from ABC Sports. Her salary is estimated to be in six figures. "I would never take less than a man," she said succinctly. Between commitments, King will comment on a variety of network programs, cover the 1976 Olympics...
Everyone knows he is the new champ. At a feminist party in Manhattan last week, Leading Contender Al Goldstein, executive editor of the pornographic journal Screw, wandered around happily unbothered, but Gilder was repeatedly invited to leave. Three women marched up to inform him that their husbands and boy friends are not impotent-a reference to Gilder's warning that female aggressiveness can affect bedroom performance...
Solee said that the loss of Johan Akerman, last year's top Engineer foil man, hurt his team badly. Akerman, the 1974 Intercollegiate Fencing Association foil champ, was drafted into the Swedish army last summer...
...this is not to say that the Bruins won't be up for the contest too. After all, the soccer squad has to make up for the disappointing performance of the football team, which the fans in Providence envisioned as an Ivy champ in September. The gridiron glory went down the tube for Brown, but that was only a dream...