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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ginny and Gracie Go to School | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Last week's debut included irregularly spaced servings of national and international news from network correspondents, as well as book and movie reviews, interviews with Jerry Lewis and Pearl Bailey, features on natural childbirth and photography, and a two-part series on the war against cancer. Says NIS Director Roy Wetzel, who designed NBC's all-news package: "People will listen to radio news for more than an hour if you provide them with something interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Day the Music Died | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves to taunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Billie Jean King: I'll kill him! | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...ironies of the King-Evert rivalry that the younger woman has benefited heavily from King's zeal ous campaign for bigger purses and in creased recognition for women's ten nis. Yet Evert, a traditional type from a devoutly Catholic family, pooh-poohs Women's Lib and has criticized King's break from the male-dominated U.S.L.T.A. The cash, however, is nonideological. So far this year, Evert has won $70,050. With endorsement mon ey from Puritan and Wilson Sporting Goods, she figures to earn around $150,000. Most of the offers to lend her name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chris Evert: Miss Cool on the Court | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...have to sacrifice her personal life for too long. She insists that she intends to quit the pro game in three to five years, get married and have two to four chil dren. "Too long a tennis career can ruin a girl and harden her," she says. "Ten nis isn't the most important thing in my life. It's so materialistic. Marriage and family are more important, and so is religion - and love. I'd rather be known for being a girl than for being a tennis player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chris Evert: Miss Cool on the Court | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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