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...many as occur in the men's leagues. For women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis, there is a definite reward system."... One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports ("We're always saying, 'Kill the umpire!'"), and she wishes...
Wills-Lenglen was a great rivalry, and King-Margaret Court was a great rivalry; but Lenglen sipped brandy during changeovers, and King admits she couldn't powder the ball the way today's women can. What Navratilova taught Evert says that no woman before Martina--the original Martina--hit the ball hard, really hard. And no one since has survived without hitting hard. Also: six of the Top 10 at Flushing Meadows have won Slams, and the injured Mary Pierce would have made seven. There is power; there is depth...
Presto. You can find the TIME archive at www.time.com/archive or you can go to the time.com home page and use the search tool. Let's see, Didn't Margaret Carlson write a column a few years ago about older mothers having children? Enter "Margaret Carlson" and "older mothers" in Search, hit the arrow button, and voila, there it is on your screen...
...Reported by Matthew Cooper, Douglas Waller and Margaret Carlson/Washington
Wimbledon, July 7: Scores seat in royal box alongside Margaret Thatcher. Gives the BBC a rain-delay interview in which he opines that Venus Williams "is like a gazelle...