Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Europe's close political unification. On these issues another old man-hardly less grand than the two chiefs of state, although he is only a private citizen-last week took an important stand. As so often before when Europe grappled with its future, there came from Jean Monnet, 73, godfather of the Common Market, some sharp, ringing directions. Gist of the message from "Mr. Europe": expand and unite...
...girl could be pardoned for having the trembles, and no one, least of all Wimbledon's seeding committee, expected much else of Billie Jean Moffitt. Though she had won a handful of minor U.S. titles, the chunky, bespectacled little Californian was only 18 and had never won a major singles tournament; at Wimbledon last year, she lost out in the very first match. The seeding committee gave her a first-round bye. And then it sent her up against Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the past...
...blast little Miss Moffitt clean off the center court. With her devastating serve and sizzling ground shots, she clipped off the first set, giving up only one game. But then everything came apart. With a series of three neatly placed "chalk" shots-two backhands and a forehand-Billie Jean broke Margaret's service in the second set, went on to win it 6-3. In the final set, the angry Aussie star built up a 4-1 lead, then 5-2. But Billie Jean refused to quit, fought back to lead 6-5. At match point, Billie Jean slashed...
...days later, Billie Jean dispatched Fellow Californian Carole Caldwell 7-5, 6-3, and advanced into the fourth round, where she soundly trounced Austria's best, Sonja Pachta 6-1, 6-2. Billie Jean might not win another match, but she would leave staid old Wimbledon in a lovely dither. Never before in the 79-year history of the tournament had the No. 1-seeded woman been defeated in the first match...
...Biennale was one party after another. The ineluctable Peggy Guggenheim gave a series of luncheons and dinners at her palazzo on the Grand Canal. Entertaining at a Tiepolo-lined rented palazzo was the flamboyant Greek-born beauty, Iris Clert, whose far-out gallery in Paris is credited with discovering Jean Tinguely, inventor of machine-operated sculptures that destroy themselves, and the late monochromist Yves Klein, who used his nude models as "living brushes." Her star discovery this year was Harold Stevenson, a young man from Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white and sports a white flower...