Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tournament, one of Boston's most unusual sporting events, featured the top players in women's tennis--Chris Evert Billie Jean King (who won the doubles), Margaret Court, and Virginia Wade...
Maybe it was because everyone at the Virginia Slims-sponsored event had to walk past the two CBS Mobile Color Units that were parked outside the front door, or maybe it was because of the television broadcaster who interrupted Navratilova as she tossed the ball up for her first serve to announces who was serving and receiving...
When word of TIME'S cover story circulated among Washington arms dealers, Hannifin found himself invited to West Virginia by a munitions merchant to try his hand at firing M-16s and Uzis. "I didn't shoot badly," he reports, "perhaps because I remembered what my old rifle-team instructor at Boise, Idaho, high school taught me. I put a speck of cigarette tobacco in my shooting eye to help with the windage...
Sixteen months ago, Kennerly and Gerald Ford began an odd-couple relationship. TIME assigned Kennerly to cover Ford as a vice-presidential prospect. Kennerly virtually lived with the Fords at their Virginia home during the two months of the vice-presidential confirmation hearings. Later he traveled for eight months with Ford. Young Kenner-ly's irreverence and high lifestyle, which includes a Mercedes, a six-room Georgetown house, and an affinity for pretty women, richly entertained Ford, who came to regard him as an "adopted son." The day after he was sworn in as President, Ford asked Kennerly...
MacLaine is also a writer. Her autobiography, Don't Fall Off"the Mountain (1970), impressed critics, including her own father, a conservative Virginia realtor who attested to the book's directness and honesty. "You portrayed me like I am," he told his daughter. "I'm a bigot. But I'm popular on my block...