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...punctuates his nearly-unintelligible stream of consciousness conversations with nostalgic recollections of Europe and his variable and impressive career. Edo who is as close a facsimile of the renaissance man as one can find anywhere west of Vienna, who on isolated, occasions has likened his team to a forest, a leaden silver dollar, and a stick of rotten wood ("a nice appearance outside, but no caloric value when you out it in the fire"), who demands style and elegance above win-lost records, who interrupts crucial matches for summit conference on the strip and winds up after two or three...
...from her order. The clerk offered to pay for it because "I wouldn't want your cat to go hungry." The woman replied, with a weak smile: "I'm the cat." Her plight is shared by many of the elderly who live on fixed incomes. Says Robert Forest, editor of the Senior Citizens Sentinel: "Food prices are murdering the aged. The only two places they can cut costs are food and medicine - and the less food they have the more medicine they need...
Evert does not have to wait long for another big test. It starts next week when the U.S. Open begins at Forest Hills, where she made her first big splash two years ago. Whatever happens at Forest Hills, Evert's future is unquestionably bullish. Chrissie the pro is far more accomplished than Chrissie the amateur, and has time to overcome her remaining flaws: a reluctance to rush the net aggressively, a volley that too often fails and a serve that too seldom overpowers. Over the past two years, she has shot up 3/2 in. and added...
...nationally ranked player at eleven. At 15 she went alone to a tournament in Char lotte, N.C., scored a stunning upset over Wimbledon Champ Margaret Court and burst into happy, astonished tears. At 16 she journeyed to Forest Hills, pro nounced herself "petrified" and then won one dramatic victory after another to become the instant darling of the galleries. Billie Jean defeated her in the semifinals, but Chrissie had made her mark. The next year she took her re venge in Fort Lauderdale by humiliating King...
...years, its aggressive attitude and legal success in southeastern Alaska have caused it, according to Sierra Staffer Jack Hession, "to catch the flak for everybody." Among its recent achievements: forcing logging companies to file environmental impact statements before they can cut trees in remote areas of the Tongass National Forest, delaying construction of several highways, and halting plans for a huge pulp and saw mill near Juneau...