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...reality is: Chris Evert is the winner, if a winner has to be proclaimed. Jimmy Connors is the booby prize, and Marjorie Wallace the loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jul. 26, 1976 | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...either candidate should appear to be the likely nominee, uncommitted and loosely committed delegates would shift to him, for in politics there is no future in sticking with a loser. Thus the projections of July could differ greatly from the actual tally in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: They're So Close | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...years in a training camp run by a government to which she is outspokenly committed. Schmidt, the power thrower who trains haphazardly and who recently quit the U.C.L.A. track team to protest the firing of the women's coach. The two have one thing in common. The loser will not complain about her coach-Schmidt because she does not have one, Fuchs because she is convinced that East German coaches are the world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JAVELIN & THE 100-METER BACKSTROKE: COMBAT WITH SPEARS | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Certainly with respect to the hated D.I., long noted for torturing and abusing recruits in the guise of "building men," reform has been slow in coming -as Bubba McClure learned too late. A born loser and high school dropout from Lufkin, Texas, McClure had been rejected by the Army and Air Force before he somehow passed the Armed Forces Qualification Test in San Antonio, after failing it in Lufkin. Sent last year to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Corps on Trial | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...game is a draw. The other game shows Ehrlichman a winner. In the shade of this trophy−this fun-and-games scalp−Ehrlichman wrote his roman à clef, The Company, in which Kissinger, under the thinnest of disguises, has taken a second clobbering that the old ticktacktoe loser could hardly have dreamed of five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Now for the Age of Psst! | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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