People, Nov. 26, 1973

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Billie Jean King was at a Manhattan restaurant presenting the Max-Pax Coffee Cup award for the season's most improved woman pro-tennis player. O.J. Simpson was in another room at the same place receiving the Life Saver the of the Month award for some timely yardage back in September. When the two sports persons bumped into each other the way out, the Juice proposed a match in the offseason. "I always thought tennis was a sissy game, " he said. "Guys that didn't run around with me played tennis. Now I play a lot. May be Billie Jean will give me a lesson."

While the House was grappling with such momentous issues as the energy crisis, campaign finance reform and confirmation of a new Vice President its members awarded California Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 41 the first maternity leave in congressional history. It was granted routinely," said Burke, whose first House term expires next year and whose other term was up Nov. 11, making the baby a week overdue. I'm just waiting. I've got my fingers crossed." The first Congressmother wants to return to Washington as soon as she can. "I'll have to see what my doctor says, but I hope to be back in time to vote on the Ford nomination "