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...Czech Ivan Lendl defeated the Swede Mats Wilander last week in the U.S. Open, the grand-slam tennis season closed without an American-born champion of any gender for the first time in 18 years. Excluding the aging Chris Evert, 32, no American-born woman active today has ever won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open. In terms of the Davis Cup, the U.S. (a recent loser to Paraguay) has been reclassified a minor- league country, a zonal qualifier...
Perhaps the greatest surprise has been the turnaround in the once gray and stilted Izvestia. The official government newspaper is selling 8 million copies a day, up from 6.7 million two years ago, thanks to its transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail...
...first impulse was to put an ad in the Houston Chronicle for a top-notch doubles partner, but that wouldn't have been fair. And since Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker didn't return my calls, I settled on one of my old friends...
...whole male-female issue, I don't think Martina Navratilova could beat Ivan Lendl, nor Steffi Graff defeat John McEnroe. That is to be expected, with the strength advantage that men normally possess over women...
...five Treblinka survivors have identified the man pictured on the ID card as Ivan, and several said they recognized Demjanjuk even now as their tormentor. "This is Ivan from the gas chambers," exclaimed Eliahu Rosenberg at a February court session. "I saw those eyes, those murderous eyes." Moreover, the prosecution has paraded a corps of experts to the witness stand to authenticate Demjanjuk's signature on the card and attest that the paper and ink date from World...