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...formal training for determining how much money the economy needs about equals his knowledge of Czech roads. But he speaks with an assurance that might seem like egotism -if it were not for all those stories around Textron of Miller riding the bus to work, lunching at his desk on soup and crackers and occasionally doing a job himself that a subordinate should have done. Instead, Miller combines a casual openness with almost supreme self-confidence. Says Textron Senior Vice President John B. Henderson: "It does not occur to him that there is anything he cannot...
...women's final between Chris Evert, 23, and Czech Defector Martina Navratilova, 21, offered drama of a different sort. Evert was coming back from her first tennis vacation since her debut as a 16-year-old at Forest Hills in 1971. She won the first of her two Wimbledon singles titles at 19, and has ruled the game with icy consistency ever since. But sated and weary, she temporarily abandoned the sport this winter. While Chris went home to her parents, Martina came home to her talents. Mastering an emotional temperament and harnessing her formidable gifts to new-found...
...issue was determined, for now at least, in a three-set match of alternately brilliant and shaky tennis. It took Evert just 27 minutes to win the first set, 6-2, over an obviously nervous Navratilova. It was the Czech's first singles final, and she played its opening games as if in a daze. With Navratilova leading 1-0 in the second set, Wimbledon fans witnessed one of the oddest turning points in the history of Centre Court. Evert lofted a desperate return high over the net, and Navratilova leaped to kill it. But what ought to have...
...once more while the ever cool Evert began to make mistakes. With the match tied at five games each, Evert's seeing-eye baseline shots suddenly went blind. Three forehands and a backhand went out of court, and Evert lost her serve. It was she, not the temperamental Czech, who had cracked: Evert won just 1 point in the last three games. Martina Navratilova became the new champion of women's tennis...
...other hand, NATO analysts foresee growing animosity between Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies. The study urged the U.S. to persist in seeking closer ties with Eastern Europe at Moscow's expense. But one Soviet relationship, that with Prague, seems likely to stay firm for quite some time. Czech President Gustav Husak last week actually thanked the Soviets for their "unselfish assistance" in invading his country ten years ago and toppling the liberal Dubcek regime...