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...teach him the game. Sobel packed off to India. "His Royal Highness was a pretty vain fellow," Ross recalls, "so I decided not to push my luck. I laid out a nine-hole course that was only 2,800 yds. long and didn't have a single hazard. That was long before the days of golf carts, of course, but the maharajah didn't walk a step. He rode in a howdah on an elephant. Half a dozen servants marched behind, armed with rakes and spades to smooth out the divots that the elephant made...
...made it two in a row at the Philadelphia Golf Classic. Locked in a four-way tie for the lead with two holes to go, he unlocked the tournament with an eagle three (including a 45-ft. putt) on the 515-yd. 17th. That one was worth $24,300. Hazards of Helpfulness. As for Arnie, after a horrendous 43 for nine holes at Philadelphia, he picked up and went home to Latrobe, Pa., to get ready for the P.G.A., last of the Big Four tournaments and the only one he has never won. The experts gave him a chance. After...
...into the Detroit River, which flows directly into Lake Erie. The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the middle of Akron and Cleveland before spilling into the lake, is so clogged with logs, rotted pilings, flammable chemicals, oil slicks and old tires that it has been labeled a fire hazard. Adding to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the pollution. On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo Mayor Chester Kowal slid past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust, and a general rainbow of industrial discharge. The stink was overpowering. "Unbelievable...
Occupational Hazard. Forced to take up his own defense, the psychiatrist wound up mumbling wearily about an unhappy marriage and conflict regarding his work. "I guess it's an occupational hazard, being aloof all the time," he said. "I've been trying to let more of me come alive, but it isn't easy after 20 years...
Fortunately, X rays apparently present no such hazard to a pacemaker; it is only from X rays that doctors can diagnose the trouble when the wires leading from the pacemaker to the heart break because of metal fatigue. The University of Kentucky's Dr. Harold D. Rosenbaum reports that this can easily happen, not only because of the incessant movement of the heart -which puts a strain on the wires-but also as a result of breathing and such everyday actions as tying shoelaces. If the breaks are detected in time, the patient can get along well again after...