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...psychological problems are severe. Says New York Psychologist Muriel Oberleder: "If we encounter unusual nervousness, irritability, depression, unaccountable anger, personality change, apathy or withdrawal in a young person, we make sure that he is seen by a physician. But when those symptoms appear in elderly people, they are considered par for the course of old age. We rarely consider the possibility that elderly people who have had a breakdown can recover." Dr. Berezin successfully treated a 70-year-old woman who had a severe breakdown, her first. She had been picked up for drinking, setting fire to her home...
Their sharpest attack ever, though, was leveled last week at the ogre of a course that Jones conjured up for the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., site of the 1970 U.S. Open. Jack Nicklaus took one turn around the rolling, twisting, 7,151-yd. layout-the longest par-72 course in U.S. Open history-and groused: "On eleven of the 18 holes, you can't even see the area where the drives land." Billy Casper complained that on many approach shots he needed radar to spot the flagsticks. Bert Greene, experiencing similar problems, decided to "shoot...
...rounds since Ben Hogan did it in 1953. A native of Scunthorpe, England, who spent his youth hacking through heather and gorse, Jacklin felt right at home with the winds and wiles of Hazeltine. He was in trouble only twice, both times on the wicked 17th hole-a crooked par four that called for an iron off the tee and swim fins to reach a green surrounded by two ponds. Twice Tony drove wildly into the deep rough; twice he boldly punched out of the trees and hit the green. Jacklin's 281 total bested Runner-Up Hill...
...which, Robert Trent Jones gives a ringing bravo. "If it's short, flat, dull courses that the pro golfers prefer, they can order them out of the Sears, Roebuck catalog," he says. Indeed, his whole object is to create a course of "hard pars and easy bogeys, a course that tests a player's skill by demanding well-thought-out and beautifully executed shots." Convinced that the gallery does not want to see "boring putting contests but great golf shots," he would even like to eliminate "cheap birdies" by extending the minimum length of par-five holes from...
...West, grinding her ancient hips in a grotesque parody of bygone eroticism; her entire accomplishment consists of dreary one-liners about bed and phalli. There is John Huston, demeaning himself as the slob-gutted, sagebrush sybarite. There is Rex Reed, whose debut as an actor is on a par with the best line the scriptwriter could give him to scream: "Where are my tits?" There is Raquel herself, who wanders about in virtual unemployment, spouting pendulous philosophy á la Vidal and a lot of pointlessly dirty words. She struggles desperately to parody herself but only sinks deeper and deeper into...