Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellsworth Bunker, 83, who also supports mandatory retirement, retired as director of the National Sugar Refining Co. at 56, and since then he has devoted himself to public service as an ambassador to various trouble spots, including Viet...
...successfully negotiated ?along with Sol Linowitz?a new Panama Canal treaty. Explains Bunker: "I don't think there is any age limitation on a person's usefulness. It depends entirely on the individual." At 71, Averell Harriman negotiated the atomic test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. At 85, he continues to offer sage counsel to the less experienced Carter Administration...
...going five-over par after five holes but then buckled down to play the remaining 15 holes in one-over. Johnson started his round on the 14th hole, which he promptly bogeyed. His Waterloo came on the par three 17th. He plunked his tee shot into a greenside bunker, bellied his sand shot over the green, and took a triple bogey...
...undertake special missions for the President like him. Clark Clifford, adviser to Presidents since Truman's day, says unequivocally, "Jimmy Carter has the best mind of any President I have known." Yet those like Clifford, and Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, who negotiated the Panama Canal treaty, have come from the Oval Office sometimes not quite sure they know Carter...
While most of the 135 players were struggling to maintain respectable scores, Vik was cruising along at two over par after 13 holes before he began to falter. He botched his approach shot to the par five 16th, dumping a wedge into a greenside bunker...