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...British Opens and four PGA championships. But Nicklaus, 40, has not won a tournament since July 1978, and last year he dropped to 71st on the list of money winners after 18 years in the top five. His place on top has been taken by Tom Watson, 30, whose Huck Finn freckles and gentle demeanor mask a competitive fire as fierce as any the game has known...
Carter still seems a little like Huck Finn in the White House, not all that certain about the work he is doing. There remains in this nation, and certainly there was in the Congress the other night, the sense that danger is not really danger, that the threat to us is not after all a real threat, that the war we talk about is not really going to be a war. This may be the ultimate corruption caused by the television tube, which brings us the daily alarms but can also be snapped off, or the channel can be changed...
Gone was the easy, Tom and Huck familiarity. At least in public, William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan, 34, would never again be plain old Ham, not even to Press Secretary Jody Powell, the only other man in the White House who has served so long and so closely with Jimmy Carter. Explaining Carter's wishes last week, Powell announced: "The President told the White House staff they should no longer consider Mr. Jordan as their peer and they should consider his directives as the President...
...Huck Nelson was only seven when his father first took him down to the steps of the courthouse in Chester, S.C., to hear fiery segregationist Strom Thurmond give one of his tub-thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there...
...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...