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...gives no thought to such things. "They memorialize folks up there at Muirfield," he said before leaving Hot Springs, Va., his boyhood home. (Since his boyhood is not over, he still lives there.) "But you have to be retired or dead to be memorialized. Since it doesn't look like I'm going to do either one, they decided to throw me a birthday party instead." So a 70-year-old athlete was competing last week at the highest level of his sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still Suited to a Tee | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Fairfax, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Your article "Dragnet for Illegal Workers" [May 10] presents a biased view of the U.S. immigration laws and their enforcement. What should the INS investigators and Border Patrol agents be doing if not upholding the laws? That is their job. Paul L. Adams Arlington, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...best player is an uncomplicated farm hand, a real "Hick from French Lick [Ind.]." (Jerry West probably never really was-and certainly never wanted to be-"Zeke from Cabin Creek [W. Va.].") When asked the condition of a busted thumb or punctured cheekbone, Bird naturally replies: "Broke." Long, loose-limbed and 25, he shambles when he walks. His hair is as ruly as alfalfa and his complexion as adolescent as measles. From top to bottom, a distance measured to be 6 ft. 9 in., Bird could not be whiter if he were a professional blood donor. His yellow mustache suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best the Game Offers | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Every spring and fall, the chief executives of some 50 of America's largest corporations get together without fanfare for a quiet weekend meeting of the Business Council at the posh Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va. The agenda includes tennis, golf, business discussions and briefings from top Government officials behind closed doors. TIME National Economic Correspondent David Beckwith attended last weekend's session and filed this report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euphoria Ends | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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