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...Barrelhead. The big winner in China's other purchase was Seattle's Boeing Co., which will collect a cool $125 million from Peking for ten of its workhorse 707 jets, including spare parts and training for pilots and maintenance men. As befits a first-time deal, the terms were strictly cash and carry: the Chinese agreed to a 30% down payment and will pay the rest by the time they take delivery of the last craft in about 20 months. Most other foreign buyers of U.S. jet fleets expect long-term financing...
...would wager my tarnished medals that if patriotic loyalty and excellence in technical performance were recompensed with cash on the barrelhead, the recruiting offices would be deluged with clean-shaven, dignified men eager to uphold those traditions that make the military a force to be reckoned with...
...corn bread, jonny is derived from journey, not John. The recipe: "The corn must be ground by finegrained stones, which would make 'flat' meal instead of 'round.' The meal should be made into dough and spread on the middle board of a red oak barrelhead [and then baked]. Only walnut coals were worthy, and the crust as it browned should be basted with cream...
When the greens are soggy with rain, when the sun bakes fairways hard as concrete, when stampeding galleries block the path to the pin, when the cash is on the barrelhead, then the grim men who play big-time golf for a living are apt to mutter: "It's a Palmer day." So Much Green. This year, any day is Arnie Palmer's day. Not since Bobby Jones won the U.S. and British amateurs, the U.S. and British opens in his "Grand Slam" year of 1930 has one player so dominated the game of golf. With 14 tournaments...
Whether given for work well done or cash on the barrelhead, the degree awarded honoris causa (on the house) is the nearest-if still remote-U.S. version of mention in the Queen's Honors Lists. Old members of the lodge see an old pattern: small colleges seek big names for publicity, women's colleges inevitably revere women, and big colleges serenely honor ability. Few would dare to claim that the quality of degrees is rising: only two years ago a Manhattan restaurateur got a doctorate of laws from the University of Idaho for ''promoting better...