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...Rune Borg, a salesman at a men's clothing store in Sodertalje, a suburb of Stockholm, was an accomplished amateur table-tennis player in the 1960s. He cannot remember the name of his opponent in the finals of a tournament the summer his son was nine, but that victory introduced Bjorn Borg to tennis. An only child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...rooms are hot in summer, but they have an electric fan. Among other coveted "things that go round," as the rural Chi nese put it, they have an electric clock, a sewing machine and two bi cycles. The rooms are adequately furnished: three beds, a desk, a large table, rune chairs, fluorescent-light tube, two big jars for storage of rice and a small glass-topped dresser on which sits a bowl of fruit. After deductions for then-semiannual oil and rice allotments, the Ch'ens earn around $29 a month, though this depends on "work points," earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: A Tale of Two Families | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Delegates from the 410 O.C.A. parishes in the U.S., Canada and Mexico nominate a new Metropolitan. If no one candidate receives a two-thirds majority on the first ballot, a second vote is held to propose two contenders; the church's rune ruling bishops then choose one of them to be the primate. In 1965 a U.S.-born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Domesticating Orthodoxy | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Biggs's eyes widened in mock astonishment at the end of the story. He paused, and then, in good-humored outrage, questioned the captive listeners in his rolled-R thick English accent: "What is this pr-r-r-r-rune doing in Carnegie Hall...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Warmth, Wit and Wisdom | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...relief pitcher Bill Rune walked the first tow men he faced in the ninth inning and Lynch, a third string first baseman in his premier varsity starting effort, stroked a single to right field to bring joyce home from second...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Crimson Defeats Eagles, 6-5 | 4/9/1975 | See Source »

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