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...past to defeat last year's champion, 23-year-old John McEnroe, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. The triumph marked Connors' first Wimbledon championship since 1974, an eight-year span between victories topped only by Bill Tilden's nine-year hiatus (1921 to 1930). "I was going to do anything not to let this chance slip by," said Connors afterward. "I was going to fight to the death." Another veteran, two-time Wimbledon Winner Martina Navratilova, 25, slammed to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Chris Evert Lloyd...
...nuclear arsenals." His Soviet counterpart Victor Karpov delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful weapons on earth...
Wanda June's modern-day Odysseus, mega-war hero and adventurer Harold Ryan who is played superbly by Mark Lupke returns home to New York in the early '70s after a seven-year hiatus But he finds that the world no longer glories in its romantic, violent heroes Nor is his white. Penelope (Nora Seton) a mindless devotedly passionate house wife any longer During her husband's long absence she has gone to college, presently she's being courted by two debonair suitors. Herb Shuttle (Doug Curtis) and Norbert Woodly (Andrew Atkinson...
Wood, 43, acted in her first movie when she was four, and though the critical praise was niggardly, she always had work. Brainstorm was her 46th movie, and her role required only three more days of filming. On a weekend hiatus, Wood, Husband Robert Wagner (star of TV's Hart to Hart) and her leading man-sallow and rangy Christopher Walken, 38-headed for the sea. They relaxed aboard the Wagners' 60-ft. yacht Splendour, moored in a cove off Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles from the Los Angeles shore. On Saturday afternoon they motored...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) met this week after a two-month hiatus. CHUL was scheduled to be replaced by the proposed Undergraduate Council, but when plans for implementing the new student government were put off until next fall, CHUL officials decided to reinstate the groups. Members heard reports this week from Dean Rosobsky on student finances and from S. Allen Counter, professor of Biology, on the new foundation to improve race relations, which Counter directs...