Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invariably at the President's side. Even in his seventh floor State Department office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, the Secretary of State was only an arm's length away from Johnson. A white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk, my wise counselor...
...since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
...playing his first tournament of 1966, and he was still in the running for big money when he teed off at No. 18 in the final round. The 18th doglegs slightly to the left, and for a long hitter like Nicklaus the temptation is strong to try reaching the green in two-by cutting the corner across the sea. Nicklaus' first drive splashed into the surf. So did his second. That set off a fruitless ten-minute hunt for the lost balls-during which one tournament official fell into the ocean accidentally and another dived in deliberately to search...
...second shot clear over to the opposite side of the 18th fairway, wound up stymied behind a tree. Whereupon Massengale pulled a No. 8 iron from his bag, said a silent prayer and swung. The ball sailed straight through a hole in the branches and landed on the green only 4 ft. from the pin. The easy birdie putt gave him a one-stroke victory worth...
...impeccable connections and bloodlines, Guy Prime introduces his friend Rex Geer to the green world of finance. Rex's success in banking soon surpasses Guy's in stock brokerage; it sorely tests their friendship. When Guy needs $100,000 to cover an illegal market gamble, Rex gives it to him-and takes Guy's wife Angelica to bed. In the end, Guy's continued peculations cost him Rex's support, and he goes to prison. After divorcing Guy, Angelica moves in with Rex and his wife Lucy, and on Lucy's death becomes...