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...brought him his third straight Wimbledon title, a feat last achieved by Fred Perry in the mid-1930s. It also brought the score in the six-year Borg-Connors rivalry, which has produced some of the most thrilling tennis ever, to six matches for the unflappable Swede against eight for the stormy American...
Borg scored five aces and 19 outright winners on his whistling serve; Connors was able to break service but once in twelve games. With Connors rocked back on his heels by the Swede's boomers, Borg, who normally takes root at the baseline and whittles away with topspin ground-strokes, moved to the net to volley Jimmy's returns. Until recently, the sight of Borg at the net was as rare as, say, a display of good manners by Ilie Nastase. But Borg charged to the front court frequently and effectively in his semifinal with The Netherlands...
Being Swedish born and now living in Hawaii, "the great melting pot of the Pacific," I find it unthinkable that Swedes would be racists by nature. The migrants from southern Europe and the Middle East who settled in Sweden are not resented because of their coloring. They are resented, even hated, for their way of living off welfare, for which the home-grown Swede is highly taxed. The people you refer to as irresponsible, riotous hooligans are merely young patriots who wish to keep Sweden Swedish, and for this they should not be rebuked. This is not being racist...
...immigrants-now 10% of the population -have resisted attempts to sprinkle them among the population. When Assyrian "ghettos" began to form last year, the government tried to break them up, but the clannish refugees simply moved back together. David Schwarz, a Polish-born naturalized Swede who edits the Journal of Immigrants and Minorities calculates that if the immigrants keep arriving at the current rate of about 20,000 a year, nearly a third of all Swedes will be of foreign descent by the year 2000. Warns Schwarz: "The big problem will come in the next decade when...
...little like christening a ship with a bottle of cyanide. As if founding a repertory company these days were not enough of an act of courage! Just to increase the odds, the Massachusetts Center Repertory Company has chosen for its first production one of this most melancholy Swede's most dolorous plays, The Dance of Death...