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...TIME'S recent story on the I.R.A. is the best all-round account of the history of the current resistance in Northern Ireland. I want to commend you for not slandering the bravest men in Northern Ireland as "terrorists" or "murderers...
...18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...
...have grown not only more numerous but vastly more proficient. Able to polish their game on college golf scholarships and then on the "satellite tournaments"-the P.G.A.'s equivalent of baseball's minor leagues-today's rising young pros are better trained than ever. Many are all-round athletes who in years past would have been inclined to pursue careers in other sports. In the past decade, though, the total purses have increased sevenfold to $7,180,500. As Sam Snead, still active at 59, points out: "With this much money floating around a man has just...
...adapting the new forms of the Italian quattrocento and connecting them to the already robust tradition of the German print, he almost singlehandedly provoked the Northern Renaissance. No single aspect of Dürer's work can do justice to the protean richness of his imagination and temperament. For all-round inquisitiveness, he was surpassed only by his older contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci...
...space stations-after it became obvious that the U.S. would be first to land men on the moon-the Russians have been stressing the practical aspects of orbiting laboratories. Said U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences President Matislav Keldysh last month: "These stations will make it possible to engage in all-round investigation of the globe and the near-earth space in the interests of meteorology, geophysics, oceanology and other branches of knowledge." Keldysh even mentioned plans to gather solar energy at such stations and beam it to earth for conversion to electrical power...