Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than this week's record $1 million duel between Jimmy Connors and Australia's John Newcombe, it was one he hoped to arrange between Connors and himself. Well before he went out to Los Angeles to interview Connors for the story, Taubman began practicing for a fast set or two with his subject. Unfortunately, Connors declined the challenge, pleading a need to rest a recently sprained ankle before his match with Newcombe. It was just as well. Taubman took up tennis at eleven and is a weekend player of some skill and ferocity. Yet in a series...
...midweek, Phnom-Penh radio admitted that the situation "is boiling hotter and hotter." The insurgents had moved their 105-mm. howitzers close enough to shell downtown Phnom-Penh. The army's ammunition was nearly exhausted. "The end is fast approaching," a Cambodian employee of TIME cabled. "All is about to be lost. There will be no more escape...
Newcombe's two victories over Connors came on grass, a fast surface suited to his serve-and-volley power game. The Las Vegas match will be on a slower synthetic surface, but Newcombe seems too strong to be seriously handicapped by a dull court. When he is pent up, Newcombe lets go with the toughest serve in tennis, and no one has a more murderous volley...
Connors has his own weapons. At 5 ft. 10 in., 150 lbs., he cannot match the brawn of Newcombe (6 ft., 173 lbs.), but he has the most consistent, well-rounded attack in tennis. His game is built on quickness, conditioning and a savagely total concentration. Blessed with stamina, fast reflexes and a long-distance vision that allows him to read the ball's direction of flight the instant it leaves his opponent's racket, Connors will return shots others cannot reach...
Still, given the risks of robbery and the hazards of traffic, the true believers will not forsake their mounts for something better. In fact, there is nothing better. The bike rider may not get there as fast as in the cab or the family car. But along the way he is creating conditions of health, enjoying the weather and collecting some valuable human truths: every forward motion costs effort; balance means a total involvement in the task; energy has its limits; to stop precipitately is to court disaster; and, of course, a skill once learned is never quite forgotten...