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Short (banging a fist against a palm): "The President does not want to be involved...
...chain-smokes on the golf course but seldom smokes off it). He owns a couple of oil wells, a one-sixth interest in the new $2,000,000 ranch-type Western Hills Hotel near Fort Worth, and next winter he will run the posh new Tamarisk Country Club at Palm Springs, Calif., where he is building a home overlooking the third tee. Other golfers find themselves dreaming of the day Hogan will find a nice green pasture for himself. It seems to be their only hope of getting a real shot at one of the pig tournaments. Like a mulligan...
...This is my dream-all British," Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes once said, placing the palm of his hand across the map of Africa. Rhodes spoke 75 years ago, and in the following half-century his countrymen came close to fulfilling his dream. In West Africa's jungles, they founded two great river colonies: the Gold Coast, which is bigger than Minnesota, and Nigeria, which dwarfs Texas and Oklahoma combined, and is Britain's most populous (25 million) African possession. Following Explorer David Livingstone in his search for the source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed...
...second test is for bouquet. Each member warms his glass by rolling it around in the palm of his hands, thus volatizing the wine more quickly. Then the tester dips his nose into the glass to the level of the wine and breathes in deeply. He meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases...
...Palm trees, flamingoes, and green grass were conspicuously absent yesterday, but nearly 70 men showed up at Briggs Cage anyway to launch the northern equivalent of spring training for the varsity and freshman baseball teams. A large portion of the first practice of the year was devoted to hitting, with both squads taking their cuts against the batting machine and "live" hurlers...