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Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, the men's top seed, played American John Sadri late last night in his first-round match...
...this film's influential power lies in its simplicity. The plot has been stripped down as far as possible. Russia has decided to throw its best amateur boxer, Ivan Drago (played by the amazingly-Aryan Dolph Lungren) into the circle of professional boxing. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the bad guy in parts I and II and the helpful friend in installment III, decides to recapture his old glory by fighting the massive Russian in an exhibition match. Drago kills (I'm not kidding) Apollo in the ring, and Rocky sets off to Russia to avenge his friend. One, two, three...
...game was tennis, but the final score was Czechmate. No two Europeans had ever won the U.S. Open singles championships in the same year. But last week Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, 25, and Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who tend to choke in major matches. This time, despite a couple of 90 degrees -plus afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title...
...after trading eight service games with McEnroe in the third set, when he needed a break, Ivan Lendl rallied back from 0-15 to go ahead...
This reminds me--maybe it's a little out of place, but it reminds me of a story, a true story. For quite a few years there was one Minister of Finance in the Russian Federation government. His name was Ivan Ivanovich. He was rather old and would doze off at the meetings of the Council of Ministers. Whenever you would wake him up, no matter what you asked him about, he would always say, "No money, there's no money." We would hope that the American Administration has not given us its final word...