Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they waited. It was going to be the sex battle of the century, the biggest hustle in history, the triumph of prime time tennis. From the day of Margaret Court's debacle, the ladies of the suburbs had a cause. And what a cause. The daily ladies doubles was now field for liberation, the weekend tennis its proving ground. And the talk over tea after tennis was noisy with sexual banter, and later, the cocktail chatter grew hotter as the sexual sparring got heavier. The housewife was to be vindicated, her woman's honor restored: Margaret had put meaning into...
...radical young firebrands of the '60s-the Mark Rudds, Mario Savios, Jerry Rubins, Tom Haydens-have all but dropped out of sight. Today's heroes have left their youth a long way behind them. Henry Kissinger (age 50) and Buckminster Fuller (78), Margaret Mead (71) and Dorothy Day (75), John Sirica (69) and Walter Cronkite (56) look and act their age. Surely no one has done more for age than 76-year old Sam Ervin, whose Watergate hearings are a parable of the times. One by one, bright young men who had gone astray filed before the aged...
...When a student has a complaint about any aspect of UHS--administrative, medical or personal--I want to hear about it," said Leavy, Margaret S. McKenna '70's replacement in the student liason post. She said that every complaint is looked into and patterns of complaints are studied to see how existing bad situations can be changed...
That puts King in a difficult spot. To be the sisterhood's standard bearer in Riggs' circus is to accept a cup she would rather pass. She acknowledges that "the only reason I'm playing him is because Margaret had to go out and play like a donkey." So she is out to avenge Riggs' humiliation of Margaret Court after all, and that rankles. "I mean, if I beat him, what merit does it have? Big deal. But I don't want to lose to this guy. I don't want to lose...
...homemade shorts, cussing herself on the court in most unladylike fashion and eating too much ice cream. When she was 16 she finally began private lessons; Alice Marble took her on as a protegee. Two years later, Billie Jean achieved instant recognition at Wimbledon by upsetting the top seed, Margaret Smith (later Mrs. Court...