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...minutes are spent considering the latex paint and high gloss on the polished wooden floors that have replaced whitewash and brush brooms, inevitably softening the mean reality of turn-of-the-century Texas hill-country life. Then the familiar voice of Lady Bird Johnson, tape-recorded and piped through speakers in each room, leads the group through: "You are now looking in what was the President's nursery. The small Teddy bear on the cradle was the President's favorite...
Almost equally ignored was the fact that despite the gloss of affluence over London, and despite Manchester's massive ?250 million urban-renewal program, too much of the north-and other areas too-feels neglected by the planners in the capital. In the gloom of Glasgow tenements, the shoddy dock areas of Liverpool and in blackened, beaten-down Leeds, the shadows thicken. "People are fed up," says Liberal Candidate Willis Pickard in Edinburgh, "with being run from Westminster and Whitehall." Over the entire north, unemployment has risen from 2% four years ago to 5.2% last year. Half the unemployed...
...preparation for the Masters, Casper refreshed himself with a five-week layoff and just one tune-up tournament to put a high gloss on his game. It paid off as he out-putted Bert Yancey and Gary Player in the final round and went into a play-off with his old boyhood friend Gene Littler. Relying again on his trusty mallet-head, Casper one-putted seven of the first eleven greens, holing snaking shots from 15 and 30 feet. He went on to win by five strokes. Throughout the 90 holes of play, Casper needed only 145 putts while Littler...
...might be expected for so ruthless a condensation, the final product doesn't contain everything it might. The book's subtitle-"A documentary of courtroom confrontation"-gives a good idea of what's maide Faced with the choice of writing a legal gloss on the trial or piccing together a Whitman's Sampler of courtroom witticisms, the editors have steered loward the sampler. Their purpose, achieved with spectacular success, is to show off the escalating battle between Judge Hoffman and the Conspiracy...
...disks, 3 volumes; $32.78; Seraphim). Gieseking's Mozartian style has slid out of fashion somewhat since these recordings were made in the early 1950s; nowadays he is considered just a bit slick and overrefined. But concert pianists, more conscious of quality than fashion, still justly envy the high gloss and exquisite workmanship of Gieseking. Seraphim's low price and lucid reproduction of the mono-only sound make the release a prize for the economy-minded...