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...moments of trial-when a sliced drive carries out of bounds or a topped iron shot skitters into the rough-golfers are apt to explode into club-throwing wrath and curse the fiends who laid out so careless a maze...
...Stevens and his aides had probably consulted with scores of officials during the development of the Cohn-Schine affair. One made this suggestion, another wrote that sentence. To unscramble all that would be clearly impossible-and irrelevant. An official often tries to dodge responsibility by retreating into the bureaucratic maze. Stevens did the opposite. He took the responsibility and sought no refuge in "orders." Finally, Stevens succeeded in making this point...
Such was the Restoration pattern-up the ladder, down the ladder, in a maze of political and bedroom intrigues. The two latest Restoration biographies-one on George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, the other on John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester-are not merely complementary, they are like reading the same crazy story twice...
...three services. Vandenberg, one of the finest pilots the Air Force ever had, was a shy, pleasant, introverted man, a good field commander with a fine record, but short, even by the friendliest estimates, of the stature and dynamic force needed to lead the Air Force through this maze. Tall, easygoing Hoyt Vandenberg set about proving the skeptics wrong...
...behind the world's biggest phosphate plant. The mother plant is International Minerals & Chemical Corp.'s new $15 million operation that can turn out a total of 40,000 tons of fertilizer and 120,000 tons of cattle-feed supplement annually. But the baby annex, with its maze of pipes and vats, is even more impressive. Behind a barbed-wire fence, International Minerals & Chemical is making commercial quantities of high-grade uranium as a byproduct from phosphates...