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...drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust at a botched shot. On the greens, bent into his knock-kneed stance, he tries to sink long putts when many pros would prudently try to lag up to the cup. Says Palmer: "I guess I putt past the pin more than most anybody. I always like to give it a chance. Never up, never in, you know." Says P.G.A. President Harold Sargent...
Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult...
Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult...
...self-confident commanders of the Laotian army and the aggressive young Laotian politicians who call themselves the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position...
...goes well until Husband Niven gives his in-laws the likkered-up lowdown on what used to happen in that little old hotel before they were married. When the smoke clears, wife is locked in her bedroom, husband is battering down the door, and daughter is standing bare-kneed and pigtailed before a youth forum, telling the TV audience all about her parents' "premarital relations...