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Considering the difficulty of the course and weakness of the opposition, the Crimson's scores were satisfactory. The golfers also battled slow greens and tricky sidehill pin placements...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Golfers Stroll, Triumph by 35 | 4/21/1976 | See Source »

...drive into the tree-canopied rough along the seventh. He fluffed his second shot into a bunker and knocked his chip over the green for a double bogey. Vik turned things around from the twelfth hole on, after exploding from a sand to within three feet of the pin...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Lash Lord Jeffs and Jumbos | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

Callaghan appealed to many Laborites as a pragmatic politician with a shrewd, intuitive sense of what the average voter wants. Some Labor M.P.s were bothered by the fact that, like Wilson, he seems impossible to pin down ideologically. Christopher Mayhew, a former Labor M.P. who entered Parliament with Callaghan in 1945, recalled that the new M.P. was even then a leader, hustling about to corral his fellow freshmen for a meeting. "But on the great issues of the day," recalls Mayhew, "there was no indication of where he stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Suiting Up for 10 Downing Street | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...forma disclaimers, Woodward and Bernstein weave a brisk and convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait outside), no toilet facilities and no upholstery upon its hardwood benches. Its acoustics are very tricky: a tourist standing 200 feet away can hear a pin drop on stage, but the echo from the vaulted ceiling can be so bad that a new drummer once played the entire Ravel Bolero four beats late. The new arts center will be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Saints and Sinners | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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