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...civilization which this 18-hole wonder slithers through is detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price is steep--$2.50--but a miniature golf course this made-to-order is worth much more...

Author: By Richard Tumer, | Title: MISCELLANY | 7/18/1975 | See Source »

...champ ended his lecture within its predicted 30 minutes saying. "It's always a victory to finish a thing in a set time," alluding to his habit of predicting the round in which he will knock out his opponent...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Professor Muhammed Ali Delivers Lecture; Poems and Parables Fill Talk on Friendship | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...touch with any Cuban leaders or could have been part of a retaliatory attack on Kennedy for the U.S. efforts to kill Castro. The significance of the Kennedy connection to anti-Castro plots is not that it strengthens the many Oswald conspiracy theories, but that it tends to knock down the notion that the CIA was operating wildly beyond presidential control in scheming against foreign leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: The Kennedy Connection | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...tank slowed down--stalled to a standstill--and we were on our way, for at least a couple of hundred miles. Our driver was a squat, hairy toothless Canadian freak. He laughed like a leprechaun--in great volumes of uncontagious cackles--and he cursed his car at every knock. He wouldn't put it over 50 mph and the hard-iron hills of Nevada clanked by slowly. Huge white letters were carved into the hills--the only signs to tell one town from another as they filtered...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Riding on the Blacktop Rivers | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Emerging From The Fogg | 5/21/1975 | See Source »

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