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...Royal Birkdale golf course, hard by Liverpool Bay, is a 6,844-yd. string of narrow fairways that twist like green ribbons over the landscape. Under good conditions it is not much of a challenge. Last week, as 108 qualifiers vied for the 101st British Open, conditions were nightmarish. Fierce winds and rain lashed the course for the first two days, washed out play on the third. Workmen bailed water from the course with buckets, blotted the sopping greens with blankets...
...American Broadcasting Co. set up the scene for its Wide World of Sports series, offering a "$10,000 winner-take-all" prize. For nine sweaty hours, Palmer and Player, warming up for the 101st British Open at Birkdale this week, inched over the 6,936-yd. course, waiting for the lumbering tractors to haul the bluidy magic lanterns into position. Gibed The Scotsman: "A funeral procession could have given today's affair a start and a beating...
...World War II commander of the 101st Airborne Division, as Eighth Army commander in Korea, and as Army Chief of Staff from 1955 to 1959, Taylor was a champion of the foot soldier and an acid critic of the theory of massive retaliation. While his own theory of flexible response calls for balanced forces, he contends that the prevailing definition of massive retaliation rules out anything less than full nuclear war if U.S. and Soviet troops clash in Europe. "This definition," he wrote, "can stultify sensible planning for a situation such as might arise if the U.S.S.R. or its allies...
...Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy might also have relied, for legal authority, on the Federal Government's undisputed right to maintain interstate commerce. "The entire strength of the nation," wrote the Supreme Court in In Re Debs (1895), a case specifically reaffirming the right of free passage...
...fighting qualities of Major General Edwin A. Walker, U.S.A. During World War II, Texas-born "Ted" Walker often blacked his face, led his troops on bloody night raids against German units in Italy. In the Korean war he won further combat distinction, and in 1957, commanding troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard, he handled the Little Rock school crisis with such no-nonsense determination as to earn even the grudging admiration of segregationists. Since then, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, Walker has been known as a stern taskmaster who required officers...