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After two weeks of rain and royalty, of upsets on Centre Court and strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, the All-England tennis championships at Wimbledon finally got down to the business at hand: deciding who are the world's finest tennis players. For the first time since 1972, the two top-seeded men and the two top-seeded women in the game survived to do battle on Centre Court for the singles titles. On successive days, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors -great young tennis stars in fine form -treated Wimbledon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swedish-Czech Coronation | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Boston Harbor Islands--Mass Audobon Society shows you nature at its finest (?) on the harbor islands, or what's left of them. Saturday tour, call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODDS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Amid the boxy steel-and-glass skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan stands a colonnaded French palace of classical elegance. Adorned by Jules Coutan's sculpture Transportation, assorted stone flourishes and a neo-Renaissance portico, the 65-year-old Grand Central Terminal remains one of the nation's finest Beaux-Arts showpieces, a source of inspiration for students of architecture, and a place of sentiment for many of the 500,000 people who pass through it daily. For more than a decade, preservationists have fought to keep the terminal, and last week they won in the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saving a Station | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...triumph over the Green, Mac tied a Harvard record, with three touchdown catches, the third a diving grab between two defenders. Against the Bruins, number 81 hauled in six passes to help Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki to his finest...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bob McDermott: A Tribute | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...Without question, Alex Nahigian is the finest teacher of the game in the collegiate ranks today. And his record backs this up," Dave Gavitt, Providence athletic director, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nahigian Named To Replace Park | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

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