Word: wimbledon
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...Wimbledon in its centenary year paid loving homage to the old-strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, curtsies toward the royal box and a nostalgic center court fete for former champions. Then, abruptly a fresh generation of tennis prodigies used Wimbledon's hallowed grounds to assert their claims on tomorrow...
Died. Wilmer Allison, 72, top-ranked tennis player in the U.S. in 1934 and '35 and longtime University of Texas coach; of an apparent heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A spectacularly aggressive player, Allison starred on the U.S. Davis Cup team for seven years and won the Wimbledon doubles competition with Partner John...
...some 30 national championships, has organized the 80s, surely the sport's most exclusive fraternity. To mark the inaugural. Smithy, as nonplaying captain, is taking a team consisting of Henry Doyle, 81, and Travis Smith, 80, to England this June. There, as a side event to the Wimbledon tournament, they will confront a team of English octogenarians...
Engaged. Arthur Ashe Jr., 33, the 1975 Wimbledon singles champion; and Jeanne Marie Moutoussamy, 25, a freelance photographer who met Ashe last year, when she snapped his picture at a United Negro College Fund benefit...
...revolutionaries could not. Already it as similates times and places and peoples and things - a faithful color reproduction of the Mona Lisa, the voice and image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of Winston Churchill, or of Gandhi. You too can have a ringside seat at the World Series, at Wimbledon - or anywhere else. Without a constitutional amendment or a decision of the Supreme Court, technology forces us to equalize our experience. More than ever before, the daily experience of Americans will be created equal - or at least ever more similar...