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Arthur Ashe left the tantrum tennis to Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe and let his silvery racket heap the abuse. The United States Tennis Association ranked him among its top 10 players seven times during the 1970s. He was No. 1 in 1975 when he beat Connors at Wimbledon, and fifth in 1979 when he had his first heart attack and underwent quadruple-bypass surgery...
...their luck abroad are encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front tooth glimmers...
...DAVID BOWIE'S SPACESHIP CRASH-lands in New Mexico at the beginning of THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, so does director Nicolas Roeg's splendidly enigmatic sci-fi parable invade our subconscious, making a great, strange racket. It is a tribute to Bowie's eldritch skill and Roeg's eerie artistry that we feel immediately all the main character's displacement, fear and wonder in his new world. This laser disc (Voyager/The Criterion Collection) marks the first uncut presentation of the original wide-screen format for U.S. home video. Also on the disc: interviews with Roeg, Bowie...
...grinding noise began the morning after the presidential election, emanating from the sixth floor of the Justice Department as the Conveyor-400 paper shredder started up. The giant machine is reserved for destroying highly sensitive documents -- not just shredding them but turning them into powder. "It made a terrible racket that went on for 2 1/2 days," says Rita Machakos, a paralegal who works nearby. She had never seen so many records destroyed...
...Philadelphia, U.S. Indoor tournament chairman Tom Gowen, Ashe's ball boy at the 1963 tournament, remembered Ashe not only as a great player, but "he was such a gentleman, on and off the court. Never threw his racket, never argued a call. He handled himself with quiet dignity...