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...pressure was on the big names to defeat him In the dubious new tradition of explosive court manners, he threw his share of temper tantrums-and racquets-along the way. Still, compared with Nastase's death threat against a New York Times reporter and Connors' deliberate snub of the parade of past champions, McEnroe's behavior was no more reprehensible than that of a high-spirited schoolboy-which he is. McEnroe's remarkable odyssey came to an end in his semifinal match with Connors. Betrayed by his serve-always the last phase of a youngster...
...battle over Governor Dan Walker, a Daley foe, and the wounds are still festering. Another internecine war-Daley's futile attempt to oust black Representative Ralph Metcalfe from Congress-has provided Thompson with a bonanza: angry Metcalfe backers now serve as volunteers for the former prosecutor. A Hewlett snub of a speaking invitation from United Black Voters of Illinois led to the group's endorsement of Thompson, which may mean as many as 100,000 votes for Thompson-equal to 20% of the Cook County black vote, which normally goes 90% plus to any Democrat. Many blacks...
...another referendum in California, Los Angeles County voters defeated a proposed $5.8 billion mass-transit system that would have been financed by a one-cent increase in the local sales tax (TIME, May 24). It was the third time in nine years that Angelenos have decided to snub mass transit and continue their long-standing love affair with the automobile...
Right up to his death at the age of 69 in 1972, Cornell was the most reclusive, subtle and fugitive of American artists. "So long as he lives and works," the painter Robert Motherwell wrote of him in 1953, "Europe cannot snub our native art." But when the imperial hegemony of American taste clamped down in the 1960s, Cornell was virtually left out. His delicate boxes, filled with tableaux made of everything from bark to butterfly wings, seemed too small and in fact too "European" to fit the current standards for major...
...need the Concorde like we need skin cancer and further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...