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...cocked a snoot at natural restrictions, rolled up their sleeves and hacked or drilled the world of their dreams out of the wilderness. Something in the Western temperament strives mightily to deny that much of the region is a desert -- witness the tropical extravagance of Beverly Hills, the emerald golf courses of Palm Springs, the ubiquitous swimming pools throughout the West...
...nuclear facilities. Pentagon officials carefully leaked word last week that they were examining as many as "100 targets" inside Iraq for future air strikes. But that kind of talk only illustrates Bush's problem. The alleged 4 lbs. of enriched uranium occupies a space about the size of a golf ball. The 30 to 38 electromagnetic separators can be shuttled on flatbed trucks, just like the elusive Scud missiles. Intelligence reports last week revealed that Saddam's troops were burying equipment in the sand. Any attack now would only be partially successful at best and, U.S. officials fear, might lead...
When the U.S. men's pro-golf tour vowed last summer to stop holding its tournaments at clubs that discriminated on the basis of race, the decision was hailed as somewhat akin to Jackie Robinson's arrival in major-league baseball in 1947. The Professional Golfers' Association heard a sudden outcry against holding the 1990 championship at all-white Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham -- and against the widely known but long-ignored fact that 17 of its 39 tour courses were at private clubs with no black members. The P.G.A. quickly imposed antibias rules, and Shoal Creek admitted...
Cynics said the repentant parties were probably motivated by money: image- sensitive corporations and TV networks provide most of pro golf's cash prizes, and the controversy prompted sponsors like IBM to yank $2 million in advertising from ABC's P.G.A. championship telecast. Whatever the impetus, the response prompted such seasoned observers as Arthur Ashe, the Wimbledon tennis champion and historian of black athletics, to predict sweeping change at exclusive clubs. Said Ashe: "In two or three years it is going to be completely different...
While other former Presidents are content to do good works, serve on boards and play golf, Nixon, like the Energizer bunny, just goes on and on and on. At the Nixon library in Yorba Linda, Calif., beside the small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born, a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena runs continuously in the 293-seat theater. It's a reel he plays over and over in his own mind...