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By now, tennis fans are used to such antics. Ever since the young man with the impish grin, two-fisted backhand and high-octane temper burst into pro tennis three years ago, the keepers of decorum have been alternating between disgust at his behavior and admiration for his play. Rumania...
I don't like the ball," he says. "I don't like that little thing coming back over the net." To keep it away, Connors hits every shot, especially his two-fisted backhand, with jackhammer force, pounding down an opponent with his nonstop attack. Small-bodied, he gets his power...
After the junta's iron-fisted rule, Greece is now savoring the political and cultural freedoms of a revived democracy. But the new-found liberties, rather than mellowing the desire for retribution, seem to have inflamed it. Released from rigid censorship, almost every art form has been used to...
The economic summit produced a policy mouse. What Ford offered in his economic message in October was pretty much more of the same from the Nixon years: a federal budget with spending held at $300 billion and a tight-fisted monetary policy that would keep the economy producing goods and...
Who would dominate a Christian Democratic return to power? The answer is none other than Franz Josef Strauss, 59, the ham-fisted Bavarian political boss who has once again made a phoenix-like return from the political grave. From his base as leader of the C.S.U., Strauss has emerged after...