Word: duffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Matthau, decked out in some excellent old-duffer makeup by Dick Smith (of The Godfather), is at some pains to be cute while he is at his most irascible. His portrait of Willy is too selfconscious, too deliberately insinuating. But George Burns, rasping and lively-eyed, makes a fine Al. Burns, 79, has always been the foremost purveyor of the sideways insult that comes in low and inside before it hits the mark. He has added just for the occasion a diabolical ingenuousness, which can raise hackles and laughter in equal, generous measure...
...Comedian Dick Smothers owns a speedster named Juan Fangio, named after the retired Argentine Grand Prix driver. Smothers' wife Linda thinks she knows the reason for Juan Fangio's success: "Turtles are supposed to like lettuce, tomatoes and broccoli, but ours will eat raw hamburger." Says Jim Duffer, master of ceremonies at Brennan's, who calls the races attired in a green tuxedo: "I can't stand the little beasts. They bite...
...necessarily. On the links, Ford ended up with a duffer's score of 100. Nor did he do notably better in trying to persuade Congress to go along with his proposals on a wide range of issues, from foreign policy (see following story) to tax reductions and energy conservation. The major fight was over Ford's three-stage, $3-per-bbl. hike in the tariff on imported oil. Congress had voted to postpone the hike for 90 days, and Ford had promised to veto the legislation. But to prevent the Senate from overriding the veto...
Less visible improvements in equipment have contributed even more dramatically to lowered scores. By thickening the base of club heads, manufacturers have concentrated their weight as low as possible - adding power to even a duffer's swing. But for the final balancing of clubs - necessary to give a set of irons uniform "swing weight" - manufacturers until now have had to load the bottom of the shaft with bits of lead. Now Shamrock Golf Co. of Los Angeles has devised a technique for placing that additional weight in the club head itself - right at the "sweet spot" where metal meets...
...down the machine spells ShELL OIL (the floating decimal separates the words). Faced with a parking ticket, the calculator owner can come up with Oh hELLS BELLS. To greet a friend, you divide 98 by 7 to get hl. A greater challenge is to ask friends what a golf duffer and the movie Casablanca have in common. If you punch 2572, add 87 and multiply by 12, and then hold the machine upside down, it will spell BOGIE...