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...last November's elections. After the first day's lectures, USIS hosts explained that guests could have two beers or two glasses of Dutch gin at the embassy's expense. That night at dinner, waiters began serving two slices of meat to guests, but stopped halfway through to take one slice away from the plates already served. Under John Rooney's representation allowance, the budget for the dinner permitted one slice of meat per man, and not a calorie more...
...hung on with a 69. On the sunbaked second day, they swapped scores, and Player narrowly missed a hole in one when his tee shot soared over the creek in front of the par-three 12th hole, landed squarely in the cup and ricocheted 15 ft. away. At the halfway point, Palmer and Player were tied at 137, seven strokes under...
...supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came on the double bosun's chair. "The front," replied Oldendorf, and off they went, back to back. Halfway across, a pelican hook popped, and Durgin nosedived into the drink, while Oldendorf plopped in "backside first you might say." Hauled aboard the car rier, the sopping brass was restored with a hooker of medicinal brandy...
...Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault might not be noticed by other people...
...your article "Spirit v. Reality," you are to be commended for your incisive and forthright analysis of the "halfway house...