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...wonderful." Jimmy even invited the high school freshman from Rolling Hills, Calif., to the White House if she finds herself in Washington. It was only her due. As the youngest tennis player ever to play at the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, the 14-year-old with the wide grin and mouthful of braces was everybody's favorite. She easily overpowered her first three opponents, but finally lost to Betty Stove. "I couldn't return her serve because I'm too little," shrugged the 5-ft., 90-lb. Tracy. Said Stove, who is a foot taller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 19, 1977 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Those galactic apertures are astronomy's latest rage. Cadavers of giant stars far larger than our scrawny sun, they have in effect crushed themselves out of existence after their nuclear fires guttered and died. Only their gravity remains behind, like the Cheshire Cat's mocking grin. No one has yet seen a black hole, since not even a single ray of light can escape the powerful gravitational grasp. But this fact has not deterred imaginative relativity theorists. Refusing to believe that anything can vanish into nothingness, they have argued that when matter drops into a black hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Star Trekking | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...else in the world changes, "baseball was played the same then." The "Say Hey Kid" got round to admitting that the fine, carefree way he used to run out from under his baseball cap when steaming around the bases was partly the result of calculation. Said Mays with a grin: "I always wore a cap a size too small." When the on-field action started, it turned out that the American League's ill luck hadn't turned either. The Nationals won, 7 to 5, for their sixth straight All-Star victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 1, 1977 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

There was a time not too long ago when Bluhdorn, with his truculent, toothy grin, used to say, "We are not a conventional company, and we are never going to be a conventional company." Maybe. But that kind of talk is rarely heard now that some threatening storm clouds have begun to gather over Bluhdorn's outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...hour. Hotels/Motels: Air Terminal Hotel inside building. Six hotels near by. Amenities: sorry. Two coffee shops, plus five restaurants (one Chinese, two Western, two Japanese). One bar, open 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tacky duty-free shops. Barbershop. First aid available. No services at all after midnight. Overall: grin and bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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