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Andre Agassi was one of the best known entrants in the 1994 U.S. Open, but a year of mostly indifferent tennis had left him unseeded and unheralded. So everyone was amazed when he won the tournament — including Agassi. I ' m still in a state of shock, he told the crowd at the U.S. Tennis Center in New York after receiving a check for $550,000 and the champion ' s silver trophy. It ' s quite amazing what I pulled off. He did it with relative ease, racing through six other opponents — four of them seeded — before a straight set victory in the final over No. 4 seeded Michael Stich of Germany. The champ shared the spotlight with his girlfriend, actress Brooke Shields, who snapped photos as Agassi — his long hair drawn back into a pony tail, his ears festooned with gold rings — held up the trophy for all to see. 304

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First rtita tit :: doing til Lenox Hi Hospital u ,enox Hill lospital loxHillj ►pital S3 ■ • • • - •■« Richard Milhous Nixon: 1913-1994. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. A graduate of Whittier College in California, Nixon graduated third in his class from Duke University Law School in North Carolina in 1937. In 1942, after five years as a lawyer, he entered World War II as a Navy officer. In 1946, after his discharge, Nixon ran for Congress as a Republican, winning on his first bid. During the McCarthy Era, a time of virulent anti-Communist feeling, Nixon became known for his investigation of Alger Hiss, a high-ranking State Department official later jailed for perjury. This led to Nixon ' s nomination as Dwight D. Eisenhower ' s running mate in the 1952 Presidential elections. During this campaign, however, Nixon came under fire for accepting illegal contributions from California businessmen, which he rebutted in his famous Checkers Speech. (Checkers was a cocker spaniel given to the Nixons as a campaign contribution.) In 1960, Nixon ran for the Presidency, but lost to John F. Kennedy. However, he ran again in 1968 and won. During his presidency, Nixon achieved some major foreign policy breakthroughs. He successfully negotiated an arms reduction treaty and preliminary nuclear arms limitation agreements with the U.S.S.R., and approved plans for a joint U.S. -Soviet space mission to take place in 1975. He re-opened the door for Westerners to mainland China. He partly succeeded in easing Arab-Israeli tensions. He pulled all U.S. troops out of Vietnam. But in 1974, the Watergate scandal put an end to Nixon ' s presidency. A Senate investigation revealed that during the 1972 race, Nixon had engineered a burglary of the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex and had also accepted illegal campaign funds. Further, Nixon had instituted a massive cover-up of the whole thing. Nixon resigned in August, 1974. However, in the 20 years before his death in 1994, Nixon gradually returned to the political forefront as a foreign-policy maven, unofficially advising Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. — Jean M. Hunsberger 303

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Could the world ' s greatest basketball player make it on the diamond? That was the question in 1994 when Michael Jordan, in his first year of retirement from the Chicago Bulls, signed a contract to play minor league baseball for the Chicago White Sox. By the time the season ended, it was clear that the 31 -year-old rookie outfielder still had a long way to go before he ' d be ready for the big leagues. Jordan was hitless in his last four at-bats, striking out twice to finish the season with a .202 batting average for the Double-A Birmingham Barons. Why had he taken up something so hard so late in life? When he signed on in February, Jordan said that he wanted a new challenge and that his father, who was killed in 1993, had always wanted him to play baseball. Reporters who waited to talk to Jordan after his last game were disappointed. While the other Barons boarded the team bus — the one Jordan had bought them — he himself slipped out another door and drove away in his Mercedes. However, Jordan returned to basketball — via the Chicago Bulls — early in 1995, wearing the number 45. 305