Word: baugh
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...other athletes, has some 300 employees and last year grossed $35 million. Arnold Palmer, one of McCormack's first clients and closest friends, now earns about $350,000 a year, only some 5% of it from golfing. McCormack can even make financial champions out of novices -like Laura Baugh, a photogenic amateur golfer whom he sent off to Japan at age 17; that year she won no matches but earned nearly $100,000 from endorsements, product tie-ins and television appearances. Still, he is not a man of infinite patience and readily shucks clients who are uncooperative or past...
...same day that President Carter authorized the Defense Department to review the less-than-honorable discharges of 432,000 Viet Nam War servicemen, John Baugh, 32, of Boise, Idaho, achieved the distinction of becoming the Army's last draftee. While a member of the Idaho National Guard in 1970, Baugh was told to cut his long hair. His answer was to wear a short wig to company drills. The military's retort was to order him to active duty. For the past seven years, Baugh has been fighting the Army. This month he lost his last battle...
...know why the Army would even want me, unless it's to prove a point," said Baugh, who must serve the one month and 22 days remaining in his military obligation. Meanwhile, his old company now allows members to wear wigs. Concedes Major General James Brooks, commander of the Idaho National Guard: "The volunteer force isn't going to make it unless we bend a little...
...said that he had been influenced by the serious fire last March in the nuclear power plant at Brown's Ferry, Ala.; the accident convinced him that certain safety systems were inadequate. "I was shaken," he said. "I thought we had built in overkill." Like Hubbard and Briden baugh, he was also upset by U.S. plans to sell nuclear reactors to Israel, Egypt and South Africa, and with India's detonation of an atomic bomb...
...nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...