Tracy Austin: How a 1979 Teenage Tennis Upset Quietly Reshaped Global Soft Power
Tracy Austin: The Teenage Queen Who Made the Whole World Late for Dinner By our correspondent in the departure lounge of history, sipping lukewarm coffee and pretending the Wi-Fi works. In the spring of 1979, while diplomats from 35 nations were busy signing the SALT II arms-limitation treaty in Vienna—thereby promising not to blow up…