Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers of the Congo army, moved into six towns, the most important being Bukavu and Kisangani. After several brief clashes with Mobutu's advancing regulars, the mercenaries last week commandeered 27 trucks and retreated toward the safety of interior Punia, halfway between Bukavu and Kisangani. Another mercenary, Major Jean Schramm, is in control there, and can help the rebels escape to Angola or Rhodesia...
...often goes unrewarded. Puerto Rico's Charles Pasarell, for example, has won two straight U.S. Indoor championships and was the only American even to reach the men's quarterfinals at Wimbledon-yet he was passed over for the 1967 Davis Cup team. Then there is Billie Jean Moffitt King...
...Bean," as friends call her, is the No. 1-ranked woman player in the world -but at home last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that if the Brazilian girl...
Champion & a Lady. It took Billie Jean a whole year to come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
...Billie Jean has been playing tennis ever since she turned eleven and "asked my parents to suggest a sport in which I could be a champion and a lady at the same time." Within four years, Little Miss Moffitt was a regular on the tournament circuit. Unlike many top women players, who hang back around the baseline, Billie Jean is a relentless net attacker, and her first volley is as good...