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...looping involves more than mindless drudgery, although the nickname "mule train" persists in many caddy yards. During the U.S. Women's Open Bartlett paced off exact yardages before each round and rose every morning to watch P.J. Boatwright, the venerable executive director of the USGA, attend to pin placements. "Every time he found the right place his face would light up with a sadistic smile," Bartlett remembers...
...tiger in me- I don't let go." Scoop Jackson's detractors might regard the mule as more appropriate imagery, but there is no disputing that he does not let go-or let up -in his pursuit of the presidency. While there is a persuadable voter within voice range, Jackson campaigns...
Ironclad Rule. The teams live and eat with their patients, and often have to rough it in hostile terrain. When Peru's mountain dwellers showed reluctance to come to M.S.F.'s field hospitals after the 1974 quake, the doctors climbed the Andes by mule and horseback to reach the injured. By ironclad rule, they are scrupulously nonpartisan; no nation has ever rejected them for political reasons. In the Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua...
...Wilson tells a press conference that the only way to produce a mule is to mate a horse with a donkey. "You can't mate two mules," he says. "It just won't work...
...from. Now that Reagan is an announced candidate, said a spokesman, TV stations might have to give Ford equal time if they broadcast any of Reagan's 50-odd films, or even reruns of Death Valley Days, on which he was a narrator and occasional pitchman for 20 Mule Team Borax...