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...adds, "It has become increasingly difficult to keep the Library up to par. If the Library doesn't receive support to alleviate some of its major problems, it will be extremely difficult to recruit University faculty in the future. Just as a scientist needs a modern laboratory, so must a scholar have a library of quality in which to carry out his work...
...Hale Irwin neglected to break par 70 on any of the four days, but his seven-over-par score won the tournament by two shots. This year, when agronomists left the course relatively alone, Irwin led with three sub-par rounds before collapsing spectacularly under the combined weight of Winged Foot's patient vengeance and a second straight day of Zoeller's rollicking gallery. These days a golfer unafraid to smile is likely to be followed anywhere. Before the playoff, Zoeller said, "I kept hearing people say, 'Don't let the money out of the country...
...inflation drove up operating costs. At the time the board responsed by a lot of fancy footwork on the investment side and by saving money at home, primarily by keeping faculty salaries down. Those days are past, the endowment is growing tremendously and faculty salaries are back on par with those around the country, but members remain worried...
...hallucinogenic plants, he adds, are regarded among the natives as the most important because they feel the plants allow them to "communicate with the spirits. It's their medication par excellence...
Truman never changed. He had virtually no affectations, Clifford noted, and no inferiority complex. He viewed his days as a farmer as a blessing, a source of strength. In Truman's mind that put him on a par with his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, the aristocratic product of Groton, Yale and Harvard; not above, but certainly not below. They loved each other...