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...pattern of the match became apparent even as Borg took the first set. Leading 5-3, he had three set points on McEnroe's serve but played tentatively and failed to win any of them. Though he closed out the set at 6-4, Borg continued to allow his opponent to maneuver him around the court and fell behind quickly in the second...
McEnroe, who displayed little of his well-publicized temper before the over-flowing Flushing Meadow stadium crowd, settled into a pattern of running around Borg's second serve and rushing net behind deep forehand approaches. Anticipating Borg's counter-punches with uncanny consistency, he cut off many potential passing shots with untouchable volleys...
...suffered a knee injury last year but rested the knee this summer and now appears healthy again. Felix Rippy, the Crimsons' top freshman last fall, was lost last winter and spring, also with a knee problem, but seems recovered. Junior Andy Regan has had an ankle injury. See the pattern...
Helms spent the next seven years in a happy humdrum, working as executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association. The job paid well, and it also introduced him to the state's corporate Establishment, which found Helms a right-thinking young apprentice. (A curious pattern: small-town boyhood, radio sports reporter, business p.r. man. Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms...
Preliminary evidence from PET scans suggests that in schizophrenics the frontal part of the brain consumes glucose at a very low rate. In manic-depressives, glucose seems to burn at a very high rate during the manic phase. (No pattern has been found for the depressive phase.) People with senile dementia show decreased glucose metabolism; the more advanced the case, the lower the activity. Researchers also plan to use PET for biochemical brain portraits of patients with multiple sclerosis, Huntington's chorea and possibly alcoholism...