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Partly with that comic contrast in view, Douglas Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has just finished a novel about mixed doubles and infidelity in the suburbs. Another effort, Courting by Sue Costello, promises to be a tennis player's version of Fear of Flying. But the best stories of the mixed-doubles scene might better be told by a writer like Edward Albee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, who could chronicle the explosive marital tensions of the game. "What we'll soon need around here," says California's celebrated tennis pro Vic Braden, "is mixed...
...Shut up, you black bitch!" shouted the nursery school student as she gave her black doll a sound wallop. The toddler-a little black girl-was just "playing house." Her teacher-a white woman-did not know what to say. Should she remonstrate with the child and tell her that "black is beautiful" or something of the sort? The answer, say two black psychiatrists, is no: the concept of black pride "is too intellectual" at this age. "In a case like this, you could say, 'Nadine, I'm sure the baby will stop crying if you hold...
...concern would be." Heimert said this week, "that the financial wallop of the federal government makes it impossible to say no to their demands...
...concern would be that the financial wallop of the federal government makes it impossible to say no to their demands." Heimert said...
...when SALT I expires, the Soviets will not only have more missiles than the U.S. but could also be on their way to having more deliverable warheads packing a bigger wallop than U.S. MIRVS...