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Flakes, Burdened with parents who compare their SAT scores like golf handicaps, the flakes respond in various ways. Some ostentatiously unload home computers on the first day and effectively guarantee a summer of alienation right there. Others talk only about science fiction, and some boast prodigious drug habits. These are the kids who read the newspapers and know every battle of the Vietnam War, Many come from Bronx High School of Science, where they win debating trophies or excel at ping pong...
Wealth is not without its burdens, Kahn notes. In the same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...
...most participants, the pleasures of cross-country are not concocted from thrills and chills. Many tourers are family groups that simply strike out from the back door after a snowfall. Unplowed roads, golf courses and frozen lakes provide paths for the basis of the sport: rhythmic, exhilarating exercise in the country air. Observes Buck Elliott, operator of Colorado's Crooked Creek Ski Touring ranch: "We're back to a simpler life. Out here, you become more aware of what breathing and eating are all about." -ByJ.D. Reed...
...believe the President appreciates the depth of what is going on. Generally, I like the fella. He tells a good Irish story. But he has forgotten his roots. He associates with the country club-style of people." To which Reagan retorted: "Well, I have only played golf once since I have been President, and he is an inveterate golfer, and I am sure he must go to a country club to play golf." (O'Neill, who shoots in the high 90s, does indeed go to country clubs. On his one golf outing as President, Reagan, who years ago shot...
...amateur golf champion and professional basketball coach, Manotoc disappeared Dec. 29 after a quiet, private dinner at a Manila restaurant with Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26. The couple had been wed in a civil ceremony in Arlington, Va., three weeks earlier, after Manotoc had obtained a quickie divorce from his first wife, in the Dominican Republic. The bride's family took a dim view of the pairing, however, and the groom's family subsequently accused the Marcoses of involvement in his disappearance...