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Then Borg is nothing less than a tennis juggernaut. Only his eyes betray the fierce competitive fires within: when the ball is hit toward him, they widen, then darken with concentration as he follows the ball to his racquet...
...Arts, thinks the standing committee in the past has been "awfully strict and literal" in its interpretation and enforcement of the Core guidelines. However, he says that now, since the standing committee has approved nearly 100 courses, it may loosen up. "The subcommittees are being encouraged to widen the variety and types of courses they recommend. Now we're taking the wraps off, and it's about time," he says, adding that he can envision the Core soon including broader, survey-type courses as a supplement to what is already there...
...envied by capitalists elsewhere and looked upon as an example to emulate. Thirty years ago, its war-shattered economy was little more than one-third the size of Britain's. Today the Japanese G.N.P. exceeds the combined total of Britain and France, and the gap is certain to widen in the years ahead...
...there an acceptable alternative? Less than halfway through the nominating process, Carter and Reagan have built leads that seem insurmountable. This is so despite reforms in the electoral system that were supposed to widen the area of choice by taking nominations out of the hands of party bosses and giving a much larger voice to ordinary voters. It is enough to make many politicians, and ordinary citizens, long for the old smoke-filled room. The current system, says Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, who was Federal Communications Commission chairman under President Kennedy, is "guaranteed to give us bad choices...
...million or 6 million pilgrims visit the Jasna Gora monastery in Poland to see the revered painting of the Black Madonna. But dozens of visitors are injured while crossing the busy road that separates the grounds from the town of Czestochowa. In addition, the government has long wanted to widen the road into an expressway. The solution: a pedestrian tunnel. But the project became another test of wills between Polish church and state. Bishop Stefan Barela complained that the underpass was a plot to cut off the monastery from the town and to "strike a blow at the cult...