Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riggs moved on from marbles to administer many such lessons in tennis, golf, Ping Pong, pool, dominoes, craps, backgammon and gin rummy. Come Sunday, in Ramona, Calif., he will co-star in what may be the first nationally televised tennis hustle. At 55, he will take on Margaret Court, 30. If Bobby has his way, he will simultaneously ring up some new proceeds and put down women's tennis. The match is the result of a challenge he made two years ago to Billie Jean King. "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable...
Riggs, who likes to keep up a running banter, has already begun to chatter. "The pressure on Margaret is going to be tremendous," he says. "She's going to have all Women's Lib on her back saying 'Please, please, don't let this old over-the-hill guy beat you.' She has a history of nerves, of choking. I perform better under stress and strain...
...much of. "Knowing Bobby as I do," says Kramer, "he will use every trick to stall. When they change sides, he will take two minutes to wipe off his racket. After a volley, he will stall before the next serve to catch his breath. My guess is that Margaret, who has a good disposition, will tolerate his tactics and not complain to the umpire. That will be a mistake...
...ultimate Rascoe exile-Margaret in the title novella-is a film editor trying to splice all her scenes together in the futile hope they will spell home. This means renegotiating her definition of family with a half brother she has not seen since she was six, parents on the verge of divorce and an old lover whom she seems destined from birth to reject...
...Margaret S. McKenna '70, assistant to the director of UHS, is off to Harvard Medical School next year...