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...tournament this season, experienced Patty Berg started the Titleholders a slight favorite on her record. The tricky course seemed made to order for her careful game. But Patty figured to have trouble with Georgia's own Louise Suggs, 32, current president of the L.P.G.A. and a trim perfectionist on the fairways. With her rhythmic, classical swing, Louise can whip the clubhead around and belt the ball with the assurance of most male pros. Halfway through the 72-hole tournament, Louise Suggs's steady shots had her out in front by one stroke. Behind her, tied for second, were...
...perfectionist worker who procrastinates because he cannot make decisions. The prescription was to put him in a set structure with firm deadlines, clearly defined duties and few decisions...
...demanding perfectionist, Gruenther seldom is more than gruff to erring allied officers. He saves the rough side of his tongue for his U.S. aides, a painful process known as being "Gruentherized." It consists in a detailed itemization of all the unfortunate officer's weaknesses, punctuated by explosive cuss words. Few escape. One sufferer remembers the time Gruenther wheeled on him for some minor blooper and snapped: "Ordinarily you're a pretty smart cookie, but this is the god-damnedest foul-up I've ever seen." Said the officer later: "I felt like falling on my knees...
...wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival of a sovereign Jewish state after 2,000 years of its suppression. Even the Jews are not yet convincingly accustomed to it." The key to his vehemence today is that this visionary leader, as fiercely perfectionist as any prophet of old, has come back from the wilderness north of Sinai in the stark conviction that his people have not yet gained the Promised Land, and can never finally win it until they have overcome the enemy without and the enemy within. He is genuinely worried about...
...cakes of Chinese ink, Yokoyama works from memory on paintings that bring from $750 to $3,000 each. When the work goes badly, he jabs at the silk with angry brush strokes, then roars to his silk framer, crouched in the adjoining room, to bring a fresh frame. A perfectionist, Yokoyama says: "Each work I start, I tell myself that this is going to be my masterpiece." Only when he is satisfied does he press his name seal...