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...discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual: the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, better known to generations of players and fans as Forest Hills, was under way at a new site in Flushing Meadow, Queens, N.Y. After more than half a century, the small New York community that, like Wimbledon, gave a nation's tennis title its name, had vanished from the tennis vocabulary...
...many respects, the new National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadow typifies the change in the game itself. Built with U.S. Tennis Association financing for $9.5 million, it will pay for itself in short order: $6.5 million was donated to U.S.T.A. coffers by CBS in exchange for rights to televise the tournament for three years. Flushing Meadow is glass and concrete modern, not Forest Hills grass and Tudor. Jets from nearby La Guardia Airport roar overhead. And that most crucial modern convenience - enough restroom space for thousands of tennis fans-is in ample supply...
...drums. On Park Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, across from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players blew tunes ranging from the Beatles to Mendelssohn. One night more than 150,000 New Yorkers and visitors came to Central Park's Sheep Meadow. They laid out blankets and picnic suppers, bottles of wine and sleeping babies, and settled down to listen to the New York Philharmonic play a program culminating in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At the finale, brilliant salvos of fireworks...
...Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York survival traits: exhibitionism, humor, and possible derangement...
...Forman and his helpers to re-create the spirit of the '60s, the spirit of the '70s keeps intruding, striding through the day in bright blue Adidas. Too many telltale Perrier bottles, expensive French jeans, $30 blow-dry haircuts. And while 10,000 visitors to the Sheep Meadow this day at least try to recall a simpler age of love, peace and tolerance, hundreds of citizens who live near the park file complaints of one sort or another with the local authorities...