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...learn to pace himself or he'll burn himself out." Trevino pays no heed. "You have to remember," he says, "that I'm only playing tour golf for four years. I have a lot of ground to make up. I'll play 'em all, whether it's the Canadian Bacon Open or the Screen Door Open. If the money's there, I'll play on a gravel road...
...Miss Pullar, her history, and history in general, goes downhill after the Industrial Revolution. "Not since Imperial Rome can there have been so many signposts to gluttony," J.B. Priestley wrote of the Edwardians. (Edward VII's breakfast: haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock.) Yet coexisting with gluttony, comparatively unimaginative gluttony, was malnutrition. Only one of three Englishmen of military age was found fit for World...
...what we do, but there's little that we can interfere in that they really want to do, especially if they enjoy the theatrics and we have to be careful not to make it easy for them by attempting reprisals in kind. "He who hath wife and child," Francis Bacon pointed out, "hath given hostages to fortune," or even he who hath fragile laboratory equipment, sensitive medical files, or a perishable manuscript. (Thank God for copying machines in the age of incendiarism...
...President set no criteria for contractors' price increases. Instead he bucked the job to a new Interagency Committee on Construction, which will also devise standards for management pay, bonuses and stock options. As a concession to labor, Nixon rescinded his mid-February suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that local "prevailing wages" be paid on all federally aided construction. The suspension enraged the nation's 3,500,000 hardhats, while contractors complained that it would have scant effect on this year's wage contracts...
...Bacon Death, by Marsha Paterson. The author was a totally nondescript young woman except for a look of anguish on her face. She handed me this fantastically greasy book and fled...