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...last two matches, at Boca Raton, Fla., and Tokyo earlier this year, the younger Borg (now 22, vs. 25 for Connors) was clearly superior. His metronomic groundstrokes raked the corners of the court, upsetting Connors' rhythm and preventing him from battling back with the laser passing shots and pinpoint volleys that are his best strokes. But it was Borg's serve that made this the quickest (107 min.) and most definitive Wimbledon men's final since 1974, when Connors pasted Ken Rosewall in a straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swedish-Czech Coronation | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

With the actresses he has at his disposal, Williams does not have to send in the Marines. Like a magnifying glass, Knight can turn a role into a pinpoint of fire. With glares, hand signals and gusto, Miner kneads her part like the earthy dough of life, and if there is such a thing as cancer of the temperament, Moore displays a terminal case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Women Alone | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Uemura resumed the trek after a new tent and fresh food supplies were airdropped. Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., were able to pinpoint Uemura's positions by monitoring signals from a 3½-lb. transmitter mounted on his sledge. The transmissions were picked up by a Nimbus 6 meteorological satellite as it passed over the Pole every 108 minutes and relayed by a NASA tracking station in Fairbanks, Alaska, to Greenbelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Journey to the Top of the World | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Navy's critics continue to reject the service's arguments, stressing that the carriers have become extraordinarily vulnerable when they push close to the Soviet Union. Just as the introduction of sea-based aircraft eventually ended the battleship's reign, so the cruise missile, with its potential for pinpoint accuracy at long range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Then the pace quickens. A CIA agent gives Vance a briefing at 7:30. At 7:40, he calls in Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher, Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Newsom, Director of Policy Planning Anthony Lake, and Secretariat Director Peter Tarnoff for a ten-minute meeting to pinpoint the day's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vance: Man on the Move | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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