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Fair Warning. One of the unnatural habits Nicklaus had acquired was a hook; he used to hit all his shots with a slight left-to-right fade. Another was a deliberately long, pendulum-like putting stroke-in place of the short, choppy stroke he had used throughout most of his career. At Baltusrol, Jack decided to do what came naturally, and in practice he fired a fantastic 62-eight strokes under par, two under the competitive course record. Arnold Palmer bravely insisted: "That won't shake anybody up but Jack...
...were the result of outside pressure on the University to do something about drug abuse in the Yard. The press and maybe the alumni, they said, are forcing Monro to take a stand against drugs once and for all, and Monro must respond to get Harvard off the hook. Or, just as likely, they said, the cops and the feds are planning a big raid on the University, and Monro wants to clean the place up to spare Harvard the bad publicity that would result from the bust...
...take and pass two full courses" unless he decides to begin at the beginning and can't make 560 on the Proficiency Test which is given as part of the Final Examination every semester. In this case, two full years of "exposure" will get him off the hook -- unless he (or his doctor) has strephosymbolia. Jack M. Stein Chairman
...less than a concerted assault by all of its neighbors. In this situation, Johnson's strategy is to leave the problem in the U.N.'s lap for as long as possible in the hope that Egypt will somehow find a way to disimpale itself from its own hook...
...counterattack. Conning the kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything...