Word: golfe
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Front yards, unplowed streets, golf courses, Central Park, and The Yard are merely a few suggestions. During the brief time that snow remained on the ground this fall, scores of enthusiasts raced up and down the banks of the Charles...
Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin was indisputably the greatest golf writer of all time. Reading Darwin, one is transported into the magical pageantry of a bygone era: the enfant terrible Bobby Jones dominated the game and the former caddy Walter Hagen with his thick-skinned eyelids and brillantined hair was lauded as "Sir Walter" by reverential galleries...
Peter Ryde, who succeeded Darwin as golf correspondent for The London Times, has written a recently relseased book entitled Mostly Golf to commemorate the man who some may feel may have been the greatest sportswriter of all time...
...least that was the story the CIA floated in March 1975, when reports of the submarine caper began leaking to the press. But TIME has learned that Project Jennifer did in fact succeed: the entire wreck, a 320-ft.-long Golf-class II diesel-powered submarine built in 1961, was recovered virtually intact. Confirms a senior U.S. Navy officer: "It was all one hell of a success." Why the partial-recovery story? The CIA remains mum about its motives but the agency evidently had a dual aim. For one thing, it wanted to defend the high cost of Jennifer-about...
...neatly manicured lawns that surround Irvine-built factories and office buildings, workers toss Frisbees during their lunch hours or nap under the midday California sun. Many of them live within walking distance, in Irvine-designed homes adjacent to golf courses, swimming pools and lakes. Shopping centers and parks, all landscaped by Irvine, are less than ten minutes away. It is an idyllic work-live-play environment, carved out of beanfields and cow pastures south of Los Angeles. Irvine has built on only 10,000 acres, and plans to continue developing its land over the next 25 years with nearly...