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...remain popular. The Band's decision to hang it up, at least to hang it up in public, seems even more laudable. The group may well have been sick of the road, as Robertson indicated, but it isn't easy to give up your bread and butter...
...with. They are there with stacks of books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed halls of academe. But most slyly tuck away the accouterments of the experienced sunbather--sunglasses, cocoa butter, iodine, baby oil or Sea 'n Ski (depending on skin type), towels, pillows, harmonicas, frisbees, blankets, congo drums (?!). All of this is hidden in bags and purses under layers of the Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson...
Like most outstanding golfers, the bread and butter of his game is putting and like many golfers he is willing to prate indefinitely on this science. "You have to practice putting but I think it's hard to learn," he says in his Paducah patois, "I just practice and experiment. In the Kentucky State Amateur one year I had only 23 putts for a round--that's 13 one-putt greens. Some days from 15 feet out you stand over it and you stand over it and you know you're going to make it. On a bad green...
...rout of St. John's he shattered the season record of seven set 65 years ago by a sophomore named Lou Gehrig. Sixty years from now Wilhite's glove may usurp the place presently occupied by Gehrig's dog-eared mitt, which is enshrined in Columbia's Butter Library...
...ability of excellent lawyers to muddle and obfuscate. Says Button: "Lawyers are paid to complicate, to keep a dispute alive, to make everything technical." The Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling, for example, once delayed for twelve years a Food and Brug Administration ruling on the labeling of peanut butter jars. Said one Covington lawyer: "Certainly, there's something suspicious about a 24,000-page hearing transcript and close to 75,000 pages of documents on a case involving peanut butter." As Humorist Art Buchwald put it in a recent column: "It isn't the bad lawyers who are screwing...