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...subsidiary of one of the regional phone companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted. "The rotary phones have stopped the drug traffic. We feel a lot safer," says Billie Curren, 58, who headed a neighborhood group that first complained to the telephone company about the problem...
...entering her 34th year as an opposition M.P. (for some of that time the only one), she is among the leaders of the English-speaking minority. Other well-known members tend to pursue different lines of work: Golfer Gary Player, Novelist Nadine Gordimer, Dancer Juliet Prowse, Tennis Player Kevin Curren. "And then the English were just outnumbered by the Afrikaners," Suzman adds, "especially in the civil service...
Aside from fifth-seeded Kevin Curren's first-round loss to Frenchman Guy Forget and Mandlikova's three-set semi-final thriller over Chris Evert-Lloyd, he only major upset was eighth-seeded Boris Becker's fall in the round...
Lopped off the head of the men's bracket in the quarterfinals, John McEnroe seconded that. "More and more, I understand Bjorn Borg for walking away (at 25, four years ago)," he murmured, after Naturalized American Kevin Curren of South Africa overwhelmed him in three curt sets. "It's difficult not to be No. 1," McEnroe says. He felt "overpowered," not so much by Curren personally as by circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power...
Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In the women's division, where Shirley Temples turn into Gloria Swansons overnight, glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player...