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...yard backswing to hit the ball to a specific point on the court. With steel, you may have to cut that backswing in half to hit that same point." For ordinary players, the T2000 might be a trifle expensive, costing up to $55 (strung with top-grade gut) compared with $35 for a good wooden racket. Even so, Wilson already has sold several thousand T2000s, says its sales director, "and our branches are besieging the factory for more...
...welfare changes were tacked onto a bill providing a general 121% increase in Social Security benefits; they reflect the gut feeling of many Congressmen that large numbers of welfare recipients are either too lazy or too unmotivated to work. Their remedy: a big stick and a small carrot...
...sure his Twins got their beauty sleep, he personally tucked them in. When eight players missed his 1:30 a.m. bed check after a night game in New York, he docked them each $100. Relief Pitcher Ron Kline got personal attention of a different sort-get rid of that gut or go to the minors, ordered Ermer, and in two weeks Kline dropped from...
...gets him up at 6:30 every morning, sends him to bed exhausted at 11 every night. She has given him sunburn, windburn and heartburn, great anxiety, occasional despair, and the kind of gut satisfaction that makes it all worthwhile. Sometime within the next two weeks, unless every sailing expert has lost his bearings, the commodore of the New York Yacht Club will come alongside Intrepid and say to "Bus" Mosbacher: "Sir, I have the honor to inform you that Intrepid has been selected to defend the America's Cup against the Australians in a match starting Sept...
...There is a kind of hippie you did not mention, the "working hippie," who works in a 9-to-5 job as a clean-shaven, productive member of society. In his gut, he practices the same philosophy of the more publicized hippies, but he is so unconventional and nonconformist that he doesn't need to wear bangles, beads and a beard to prove that, in spirit, he is a hippie. In time, dropout hippies may realize that they can do as much, or more, on the inside of society as on the outside. Until then, we should be everlastingly...