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...winning tactics of eight years ago to pull him through again. Accompanied by the country music of "Johnny Dollar and the Dollar Bills," Wallace still promises defiance of federal desegregation orders, and he plays hard on the old theme of the ingrained inferiority and persecution complexes that grip much of Alabama. "They used to say how rude and crude we all were, us rednecks," he told one hollering crowd recently. "Well, last year they were saying, 'Yessir, Mr. Wallace, and yessir, Mr. Alabama.'" Wallace claims that because of him, many of the speeches by Nixon and Vice President...
...Lesson. A National Front defeat would hardly do Colombia any good. Lleras Restrepo has done much to cure the financially sick country during his four years as President. He strengthened the peso through tougher tax collection, a drive on inflation and a strong grip on military spending. He also pushed agrarian reform and a birth control pro gram, notwithstanding the Vatican's opposition. Unfortunately, none of this meant much to the peasants, to whom the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Lleras Restrepo appears as a somewhat abrasive and distant technocrat. "The lesson," he said, visibly shocked at the closeness...
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan must have glowed with pride over his daughter Princess Nori as she was photographed at Togu Palace in Tokyo on her first birthday. With regal bearing, earnest mien and a firm grip on her free-form hobbyhorse, Nori looked ready to take the helm of the ship of state...
...roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold Palmer prepares for a tournament by endlessly changing the grip and reweighting the head of his favorite putter. Gene Littler has been known to use a club he bought at a miniature golf course...
...Known as the King of the Flat Blade, he is perhaps the best putter among all the great players in the game today. Though he likes to say that he attaches more importance to his driving, he will lecture for hours on the virtues of the "reverse overlap" putting grip, or the different consistencies of Bermuda and bent-grass greens. "If you don't putt well, it affects your whole game. It is the most delicate and precise thing you do," he says. "It takes more touch, more feel. You have to be mentally refreshed to do it well...