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Uncle Sam Wants You -- to Play Golf...
Washington -- Senator Dennis DeConcini says the U.S. government wastes millions of dollars a year on golf, and he wants to do something about it. The Democrat from Arizona recently learned that the military maintains about 280 golf courses for its personnel at the cost of some $6 million a year. DeConcini wants to open up the military courses for civilian use for about a dollar a hole, a plan that could net the Treasury $100 million a year...
...only person on the planet who initially began boxing because he had broken his nose playing both football and baseball and was looking for a less damaging alternative. Five years ago, Tommy became the only person ever to knock in two holes-in-one in the same round of golf at Winchester Country Club. Today, one day before his 85th birthday, Governor William F. Weld '66 will honor Tommy at the Statehouse for eighteen years of service on the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission...
Idealistic first-termers in Congress tried unsuccessfully to impose a $20 limit on gifts that members may accept from lobbyists. That measure would have had no effect on the seaside getaways favored by the Congressional Golf Caucus, as the regular junketeers are derisively called. Still, when the proposal stalled, fingers pointed at House Speaker Tom Foley. "He has found a million reasons for why this is a problem or that is a problem," complains one freshman lawmaker. Foley first insisted that he was not blocking the measure, then cited miscommunication with the Republicans when the measure failed...
...supreme achievement of sky spies, is passe. Air Force General Frank Horton, also testifying at the hearings, quietly dismissed that as only "medium" capability. In fact, the American intelligence community within the past two years has achieved what President Dwight Eisenhower once prematurely claimed: the capacity to spot a golf ball on the links. This means the agencies really do have the spy sight beloved of scriptwriters: they can read the license plates on cars. That eye in the sky has finally become a microscope in the cope...