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...play, the defending champion squared away for the final 18, and teed off into gusty winds to whittle away at Player's lead. He turned the front nine in 33 and gained back a stroke. Player's deftness with a pitching wedge (riddled with holes to lighten its weight) let him take only eleven putts on the first nine-but he misjudged a chip shot on the loth, and Palmer was only two strokes back...
...would probably be months before investigators - helped by U.S. experts -could piece together the causes of the disaster, but the facts could scarcely lighten the burden of the tragedy itself. It was proud Sabena's worst disaster, and the first crash involving a regularly scheduled commercial Boeing 707 (two other 707 crack-ups occurred during training flights). No one life could claim a value above another, but the deaths of brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, fathers and sons dealt one of the worst blows to whole families of any crash ever. In all, there were multiple deaths...
...committees are beginning to realize that the problem is more than they can meet themselves. Says Kerr: "The public benefits from technological change in the form of better products and lower-prices. It is only reasonable that the public should share the costs." He would like Government funds to lighten the blow on specific industries or workers...
Getting Heavier. Behind the Anderson-Dillon mission was no mere Shylocking or even any desire to lighten the burden of international assistance, which the sweating U.S. taxpayer has borne almost alone since World War II and which is the fundamental cause of the U.S.'s international-payments difficulties. What was at stake was the dollar's ability to go on serving as the free world's basic currency -a state of affairs on which, as the allies well knew, the health of their own booming economies depended. To help support the dollar and halt the flight...
Even in darkest Congo, female companionship can help to lighten the surrounding gloom. The Congo's harried leaders last week could be grateful for two comely women flitting happily around the candle of fame...