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...eagled the ninth for a 36. On the tenth she just crushed her drive." Hite hove her second shot on the par five dogleg out of bounds and ballooned to a 45 on the back nine. "She finished 25th or 30th," Bartlett adds by way of a post mortem...
...last week. The House Intelligence Committee under Chairman Otis G. Pikes had subpoenaed from the White House top-secret briefing materials on the Yom Kippur War, the military coup in Portugal, and other events. The documents showed some crashing intelligence failures. Concerning the Yom Kippur War, an agency post-mortem admitted that "those responsible for intelligence analysis were quite simply, obviously and starkly wrong...
...month before his 30th birthday in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a sailing accident on the Mediterranean. Back in London, the Gentleman's Magazine harrumphed: "We ought as justly to regret the decease of the Devil." A far different post-mortem came from Lord Byron, who called Shelley "the best and the least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison...
...patients under treat ment for valvular heart disease. They found that 125 had had rheumatic fe ver or a related ailment. But they fur ther discovered that of the 132 with no history of these illnesses, 83 (or 63%) had owned or handled birds. The doctors examined post-mortem tissue from 27 patients who had had valvular heart disease. Seven were carrying antigens indicating possible infection with a microorganism called Chlamydia psittaci-the same microbe that causes parrot fever...
Writing a post-mortem analysis of your home football team is never much fun. Especially when your team let slip away a game it should have won. Even more so when the team it lost to is as innocuous as Rutgers. Losing to Yale or Dartmouth invokes a sense of frustration or anger. But Rutgers? More like embarrassment, particularly since a poor Princeton team tied Rutgers the week before...