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...Regret. Last week, as Laver sought to defend his No. 1 seeding in the Wimbledon championships, his chronicle served as a fitting reminder of how far and how fast the pro game has progressed. It was just three seasons ago that the overseers of Wimbledon revitalized tennis by opening their tournament for the first time to pros as well as amateurs. Several other major tournaments have since followed suit, and the added competition has increased both fan interest and purses. Going into Wimbledon last week, Rod the Rocket had already won a record $195,135 for the year. With half...
...means a shoo-in at Wimbledon. Laver not only faces the usual stern competition from fellow Aussies Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe, but he must also contend with such fast-rising young stars as rangy Stan Smith of the U.S. Now 32, the Rocket has only one regret about the increasing number of young players who are able to make a career out of tennis. Recalling how he felt in 1968 when he was allowed to return to Wimbledon, he points out that the newcomers will never know "the elation of being recognized as respectable men again...
...concerned with the behavior of men in extremis, be it in prison, in a cancer ward or, as in this case, at the battle front. The author describes the new work, the first volume of a projected trilogy, as "the main task of my life," and notes with regret in an afterword: "Now that I am on my way to the goal, I am afraid it is too late. I may not have time and creative imagination left for this 20-year work." Solzhenitsyn focuses on eleven days during the Czarist army's disastrous East Prussian campaign. He sees this...
...marriage, no children; in Hawthorne, Nev. They had lived apart for more than a year, legal grounds for divorce in Nevada. Following the couple's separation in 1969, Miss Peters commented: "This is not a decision reached in haste, and it is done only with the greatest of regret . . . Any property settlement will be resolved privately between...
Certainly most of Harvard '71 would have little trouble talking with an alumnus such as Eliot Hirshberg whose "pet political aversion is Richard Nixon, followed closely by his friend, John Mitchell." Or Robert Conrod, who wrote: "I loathe and strongly regret the Vietnam War as immoral, illegal, evil, hateful, disgraceful, contemptible, racist, and entirely unworthy of the United States as a nation. I am proud that my three sons have been intelligent and courageous enough to avoid any participation...