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...turned pro at 17. But under the careful eye of his future father-in-law, Johannesburg Club Professional Jock Verwey, he practiced religiously, eight hours a day, trimmed off excess weight with a diet of nuts, dried fruit and honey, built up muscle by lifting weights and doing 70 fingertip push-ups a day. From fellow South African Bobby Locke, Player picked up pointers on his short game. Later, from Ben Hogan, he learned how to grip his clubs properly. Says Hogan: "Gary is doing what I have long advocated: working hard on fundamentals and then working the fundamentals into...
...handle a daily average of 2,000 flights, the Oakland center has 750 miles of telephone wire within its walls, with enough switching equipment to sustain a city of 20,000. The Oakland controllers are in fingertip communication with 40 airport control towers and radar approach control centers in California and Nevada. Ten transmitters perched on peaks provide ground-to-air relays. A long-range microwave antenna speeds the blips of moving light to the center's radar screens, enabling the safety officers to "see" the planes they are directing...
...weakening): "In a minute." He leads her toward the bedroom. "Oh!" she gasps. "I knew this would happen if we got married." She blinks up at him shyly. "Promise me you won't think less of me?" He smirks confidently as she glides away, glides back in a fingertip nightie, just in time to receive an unexpected visitor: the college president...
Contact by Fingertip. Unruffled by all of this political sniping, Magsaysay took off for a Sunday plunge into the provinces, where his popularity is untouchable. Leaving Malacanan Palace at 6 a.m., he sped north into Tarlac province. Wherever a group of Filipinos had gathered along the roadside to wave and cheer, Magsaysay stuck out his hand and Filipinos would reach out and fleetingly brush his fingertips. Their faces lighted up at the contact; so did his. Whenever the crowd was as big as 200, Magsaysay popped out to shake everybody's hand, then walked down the road...
...time, Hammarskjold has become one of two men who really have fingertip understanding of the entire U.N. (The other: his executive assistant, Andrew Cordier, a husky, onetime professor from Indiana who has been described as "a Wallace Beery with brains.") Wisely, Hammarskjold never employed too nakedly this power. "If I think a man is being foolish," he says, "I may have to tell him. But I can't, as you say, blow my top. I have to be frank, but without heat...