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Flanked on one side by a panorama of the Pacific Ocean, the graceful symmetry of this immaculately tended course is broken only by clumps of grotesquely gnarled cypress. Behind the 122-yd. third hole stands a solitary wooden bench beneath an enormous royal palm where President Nixon -who seldom plays the course-likes to sit in private tranquillity at dusk...
...ranting in English while the catcher was raving in Japanese. The first American ever to serve as the head coach of a professional Japanese baseball team, the monolingual Blasingame usually avoids such communications problems because he uses pidgin Japanese and sign language. An interpreter sits with him on the bench for emergencies...
Sirica's partisan politicking came to an end in 1957 when President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him to the federal bench. By virtue of seniority, he became chief judge for the D.C. district court two years ago. In that position, he could have assigned the Watergate trial to one of 14 other fellow district judges. Instead, Sirica appointed himself to preside over the case...
...very least, Taylor, 52, has long since dispelled the notion that a jazz musician sleeps all day. The son of a Washington, D.C., dentist, he studied saxophone, guitar and drums as well as piano-until he discovered that "pretty girls always came and sat on the piano bench." He had his own combos in high school and college (Virginia State, where he majored in music), then headed for New York in 1943 (he was medically exempt from war service). Two days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers...
...junior year, it was clear that Walker's football could take him no further than the local teacher's college; and in basketball, he sat on a bench for the first time in his life. His temper grew short, he drifted away from school activities, and he began to get in trouble for skipping classes. Teachers said he was bright and a natural leader, but that he had "a motivation problem...