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...gave golfers something new to discuss. A little-known pro who has never won a major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot him into the lead over a field that included Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and 152 others...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching...
Diagnosis. Telstar, which had no spare transponder, was in much more serious trouble. But its case was not hopeless. Its radio beacon was transmitting normally; so were the host of instruments that report by telemetry on its internal condition. They showed that Telstar's solar cells were generating plenty of electricity. Its temperature was normal, and no intruder, such as a meteorite, had damaged its delicate nervous system. Apparently the only trouble was in the command decoders. Telstar was ablebodied, but without working decoders it could not hear and obey commands...
...color, and in an antitrust suit asked $150 million in treble damages. RCA in rebuttal accused Philco of patent infringements and false attacks on the reliability of RCA's three-gun color tube, demanded $174 million in damages. As years went by, the fight descended into a hopeless tangle of side issues, including a Philco attempt to take over a Philadelphia television station operated by RCA's NBC subsidiary...
...Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country) and essays, Baldwin has written of things he knows well: his native Harlem, homosexuality, France (where he has lived as a sometime self-exile, supported partly by U.S. foundation grants)-and what he considers the all but hopeless estrangement between the American Negro and white...