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Attacking the net at every chance yesterday, French Davis Cup star Henri Leconte shocked defending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia yesterday to join second-seeded John McEnroe in the quarterfinals of the $500,000 Tournament of Champions at the famed West Side Tennis Club in New York...
...DIED. Ivan M. Vinogradov, 91, Soviet mathematician and one of the world's experts in number theory, an abstruse specialty concerned with the properties of whole numbers; in Moscow. As director of the Institute of Mathematics since 1932, he reportedly used his considerable power to keep Jewish mathematicians out of the scientific establishment's upper levels...
...charge of the Scricciolo investigation, Judge Ferdinando Imposimato. After questioning Agca, he has now pieced together the details of the alleged plot to kill Walesa. In addition to naming Agca and the three Bulgarian officials implicated in the papal shooting, Imposimato issued official warnings last week to Scricciolo, Ivan Donchev, a former second secretary at the Bulgarian embassy who is now in Sofia, and Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded that a shooting attempt was too risky, and decided instead to explode a bomb in Walesa...
Dini has inherited a certain lack of expressiveness from his father: in the first big scene between him and the girl, Magda(Aniko Ivan), the two snap mechanically at each other. The listless interchange culminates when Dini hold Magda's arm, saying, "I won't let you go." Magda yanks free with a curt "piss off" and walks away...
...endless, but tennis achieves it. So a mid-life crisis at 26 is eminently understandable, though in Bjorn Borg's case, especially regrettable. The shy Swede, born just outside Stockholm, raised just outside the baseline, is a special case. First of all, his departure grants Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl and Americans John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors complete custody of the game, a dismal situation...