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...that he will charge headfirst into a multitude of unacceptable activities, as he did yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good belting instead of medication, I'll have you to back...
Imagine a golf nut stationed in the Soviet Union, with nary a golf course in sight. That's how it was for U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson until friends in the United States Golf Association heard of his plight and rushed a portable driving net to Russia. It was promptly installed outside the residence, tensions eased, and Mr. Ambassador is happily walloping golf balls. Joseph C. Dey Jr., executive director of the association, sees it as "the beginning of a new and insidious invasion of Moscow." After all, the bug is catching...
...Visitors receive friendly greetings in the street and hear the plea "Help us win the war." In the villages, shouts of "Nno!" (Welcome) are accompanied by the traditional offer of a cup of palm wine, still in plentiful supply. With that, the host will usually break open a kola nut-a mild stimulant that helps stifle hunger...
...reflections derived from the old, hard-sell commercials will be rather odd. In the typical American family, Mom is obviously a nut. Every blessed washday, she is seen running around the backyard with wild, passionate abandon, embracing her laundry and squealing, "It even smells clean!" That's more than can be said for Sis. Poor kid, her best friend just told her she's got rotten armpits. As for Dad, he keeps getting punched in the eye because he won't switch his brand of cigarettes. So he asserts his virility by barreling around mountain roads in his wide-track...
Died. Edward Ainsworth, 66, author and regional journalist for the Los Angeles Times, whose gentle, low-key columns provided an antidote to the image of Southern California as a giant nut-burger stand; of a heart attack; in San Diego. As "the Boswell of the Boondocks," Ainsworth ambled through small-town California in search of such interesting minutiae as "the gargantuan battle over the bougainvillea, the rose and the iris," all candidates for small (pop. 25,000) La Puente's official flower. The hibiscus, a dark horse...