Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends were electrocuted, and he was burned so severely that doctors at the burn unit of Chicago's Cook County Hospital had to amputate his legs and an arm. But their treatment saved Bruce's life, and now, fitted with prosthetic devices, he is taking golf lessons...
...snapped to him. Guy not only kicks long (his career record for Oakland: 72 yds.), but he can also put the ball down uncannily close to the other team's goal line. He has more "touch" in his leg than most golfers find in a bag full of golf clubs; he can roll a punt like a chip shot or drop it dead like a wedge. His value against Minnesota? Probably as much as ten yards on each exchange of punts...
Flextime is especially appreciated by working parents, who can choose either to see their children off to school in the morning or to pick them up after classes, and sports enthusiasts, who can play golf or tennis in the early morning or late afternoon. Supervisors report that productivity generally improves under Flextime?since employees can work at the hours when they feel most alert?and that absenteeism drops. Workers no longer call in sick for an entire day in order to get a couple of hours to attend to personal business...
...timber and mining industries . . . Knows Carter from Governors' conferences in early 1970s . . . Campaigned strongly for him . . . Son of a lumbermill operator, was elected to state senate at 29, served four terms . . . Married, with three daughters . . . Lutheran . . . An energetic sort, has been TV pitchman for Idaho potatoes, played celebrity golf (best score: 112), raced porcupines with other Idahoans . . . When other Western Governors complained about invading hordes of outsiders, Andrus declared: "We can't build a fence around Idaho, and we won't. People are welcome here...
...disclosing as little information as possible. In a series of briefings, then CIA Director William Colby confided to reporters that the U.S. had used a large vessel, reportedly built for Howard Hughes, to try to retrieve a 1961-vintage Soviet submarine that had sunk northwest of Hawaii. Unfortunately, the Golf-class sub cracked apart as it was being hoisted. Only the forward third was recovered. Colby did not say what it contained, but any knowledgeable person would expect that it housed torpedoes and perhaps other valuable materials. The mid-and aft sections, containing the far more important nuclear missiles...