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Laver was an expert practitioner during his prime in the '60s, and nearly every how-to book on tennis has many words on the subject. But most observers think Borg has mastered topspin as has no player since French noblemen developed the game in the Middle Ages.* As a result, he plays more of that crucial space above the net than anyone in the history of the game. Says Tennis Coach Vic Braden: "Bjorn can make the ball drop so fast it will untie your shoelaces. If you want to get back far enough to take it on the bounce...
...play the title role in Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s, a CBS-TV movie about the cinematic sex queen. Anderson, 33, at 36-24-36, is somewhat shy of Mansfield's more pronounced 40-18-36 but hardly needs Body shaping for Women, the recent how-to book by her co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Jayne's second husband, Mickey Hargitay...
...venison that was "dark, brown-fleshed, hot and soused [with red wine and cognac], over which the red-currant jelly has laid a cool, sweet surface." These and many, many other delights are recollected in tranquillity. Side by side with Marcel, Dining delivers the soul as well as the how-to of the bourgeois Brillat-Savarin...
...Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate, which is making discs for the Magnavox player. The company has been rummaging movie company libraries for popular films. While recent releases on the MCA discs cost $15.95, older classics like Destry Rides Again and TV movies (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) sell for $9.95; how-to features like a Julia Child cooking course or films of Ali's boxing bouts are priced at $5.95 and up. RCA, which is producing its own discs, expects to start with about 250 offerings at a top price...
...cassette for later viewing. Videodiscs are also used with standard TV sets, but they are like phonograph records that can "play" video images as well as sound. They cannot record TV shows but, like records, are sold pre-programmed with anything that can be shown on the tube: movies, concerts, how-to instructions in golf and cooking...