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...computer rankings on which Wimbledon's seedings are based do not have adequate input regarding abilities on what is now the exotic tennis surface. That is why, in recent years, many of the top seeds leave the tournament suddenly and why one or two strong-serving kids, whose hot spell comes upon them here rather than in darkest Stuttgart, find themselves on Centre Court and on international TV. Indeed, the tournament's size favors heedless youth. In a draw containing 128 players, the eventual victor must win seven matches in two weeks, some of which are bound to be played...
...parents were very concerned, and they organized a search party. When the search party came upon the boy, they found him walking in a huge circle, round and round. He kept repeating, 'I have grown taller. My legs are long.' Everyone assumed that a tanuki had put a spell...
...predominantly male sport. Celebrities, including Bo Derek, Stefanie Powers and Sam Shepard, are mounting up as well. Danger is little deterrent. In Hawaii a month ago, a player was killed in a mishap involving Alex Cord of TV's Airwolf, but the actor remains hooked. "Once you have the spell cast over you, you become the slave of a grand passion that lasts forever," says Cord reverently. "It encompasses different skills. You have to be able to ride like a Comanche and think like a chess player...
Summer was once a pleasant, carefree time of year in televisionland. Network programmers had a relatively simple job: switch on the reruns, perhaps trot out a few Gold-diggers to spell Dean Martin for the hot months, and relax. If the viewers flicked off their sets and headed for the ball park, so what? They would be back again in the fall...
...these stylistic transgressions, Trimble is routinely punished. "I'd be walking down to a class, and I'd hear murmuring, and somebody would say, 'She's going to put a spell on you.'" One boy rode a broom into class to mock her; another called her ugly and crazy. Finally, one day last month, she couldn't take it anymore. "I started crying uncontrollably," she says. She's behind in her classwork now because she avoids going to school whenever...