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...Zoeller took a three-stroke lead on the second hole. Norman three-putted three of the first five, and the most meaningful championship in golf turned into a brisk 3-hr. 15-min. walk. When Zoeller missed a birdie putt near the close of his handsome 67, Norman in jest made the sort of choking sign that professional basketball players flash to each other in earnest. Then he went to his own ball. "Knock it in," Fuzzy said softly...
Shirley, you jest. Men are so far behind that most of them are not anywhere in sight. Invisible, that's what they are, even to themselves. They creep around feeling "helpless, really helpless," apologizing when outraged feminists catch them displaying what is called, with great scorn, "too much male energy." Such are the views, anyway, of Tony D'Aguanno, Michael Blyth and Chic Drolette, three psychological therapists from Berkeley, Calif., who have started what they call a "male empowerment group." Not a support group, if you please, although what goes on in,this subversive cell is much like...
...some self-motivated clean up, often poked good, clean fun at Harvard in a manner that any generation could laugh at. Its uncharacteristically lifeless rendition of "Fight Fiercely Harvard," "Soldiers Field," and "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" two Saturdays ago raises the question of whether Epps will allow any jest at the expense of Harvard...
...Chairman Bradley Jones said that no antitrust problems should arise from Washington because the merger would create "a stronger, more efficient steel company, better able to compete in a new world-market environment." Jones will head LTV Steel, which will be headquartered in Cleveland. Some Republic employees suggested in jest that the new company be called Bradley Jones & Laughlin...
...penalty in the terroristic world of tomorrow is the thread on which Britain's George Orwell has spun his latest and finest work of fiction. In Animal Farm, Orwell parodied the Communist system in terms of barnyard satire; but in 1984, there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell's utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time...