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...rarely seen at the "in" Restaurant-of-the-Month, never swings at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She doesn't play the tables at Vegas or pick up a cue in the billiard room of the Beverly Hills Daisy; where Frank Sinatra bides his time, she abides not. If she isn't at home, she is likely to be found with her four-year-old daughter at Hamburger Hamlet or at the Los Angeles Zoo or at a local art gallery. Her night on the town is the Bolshoi or a concert at the Hollywood Bowl...
...park. Today, California's Department of Parks is bursting with pride. In less than a decade, the Enchanted Hill has brought in $6,163,182 from tourists eager to pay $2 each for the privilege of being ushered through its vaulted halls, past Roman baths, and into a billiard room hung with a Gobelin tapestry...
Bracelets & Billiards. Meanwhile, in Paris last week, more than 10,000 buyers a day were bustling through the Third Biennial of Antiques. Set off by the Grand Palais' lavish decorations, including 500 trees and an artificial lake with swans, more than $10 million worth of objets d'art were on sale. Rarities included the child-sized billiard table given to King Louis XIV when he was twelve years old, and an art nouveau serpentine bracelet designed for Sarah Bernhardt...
...like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same for everybody," sighed Nicklaus. "That's the only thing you can say in its favor...
...National Golf Club were embarrassed when Nicklaus ripped their course to shreds last year-firing a record 17-under-par 271 for 72 holes, winning the Masters by nine strokes. Last week there were spongy fairways to deaden long drives and two new greens that were as fast as billiard tables. Hostile fans screamed, "Too bad, Fat Jack!" whenever Nicklaus flubbed a shot. History was against Jack: nobody had ever won the Masters twice in a row. And so, it seemed, was fate...