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...inspires so little romance, Tom Watson has a predilection for the romantic, a trait once associated with golf. "It's a slow game," says the finest golfer in the world, "and it's difficult to get the full meaning of it without taking time. You play along a while against the course, until, eventually, it comes down to the last nine holes, and you go after the other guy, usually just one other guy." Watson almost wishes there were no television then. "Isn't the book always better than the movie?" he wonders. "It's always...
...women who labor at National Steel's Weirton division in West Virginia produce some of the finest steel and tin plate in the world, about $1 billion worth annually. Even so, the plant lost $50 million in 1982. A year ago, when National announced it would stop investing capital in the plant, Weirton employees feared that management would drastically shrink the operation or shut it down altogether...
Looking at the bright side of pro basketball, how about them Knicks? Madison Square Garden's finest have won seven straight and 21 of 25. The team was last seen strolling down 34th Street whistling a playoff tune...
...Queen had wanted to see a Hollywood studio. The finest oldtime studio lot still operating is 20th Century-Fox, and the First Lady invited 500 over for dinner on sound stage No. 9, a vast space where the M*A*S*H series had been filmed. For this occasion, the olive drab was replaced by gay Hollywood eclectic: Ficus trees draped with fairy lights, fiber glass and plaster statues (including one of Bacchus) standing on yards of artificial turf, a 24-ft.-high fountain (from Hello Dolly), painted pastoral backdrops (used in From the Terrace) and Chinese paper lanterns...
...July 1, after a decade as the University of Utah's popular president, David Pierpont Gardner, 49, takes on what is probably the nation's most challenging job in education. He will become the 15th president of the nine-campus, 139,176-student University of California, the finest public university system in the U.S., and one, as Gardner says, "where all the forces blowing through society come to bear...