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Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...
...blood newsreels or nerve-end sensationalism. But both at least point in the direction of reopening the theater to life, action and meaning. Whatever happens, the theatergoer should have a vantage point offered by no other art. He has a right to demand a place in the fire pit of existence, there to behold the spectacle of man in all his folly, pride and spirit...
...hold for the next twelve months, the new president, Dr. Charles Hudson, a Cleveland internist, counseled moderation. "There are people who think doom is going to fall in on us," he said. "I think this opinion is not justified. We are not stepping off the brink into a bottomless pit of professional destruction and despair." He proposed that doctors "make the most of this new program." If they do, he suggested, they may help "prevent its extension toward a national health service...
...middle of the octagonal bean pit in Chicago's Board of Trade, hundreds of beige-jacketed traders snouted and jabbed out hand signals to make their trades. Amid the pandemonium, messengers dashed about picking up written confirmations. In the offices of the commission houses, clerks clocked up overtime hours; at one firm they slept only three hours in three days...
With these new products coming out, with more cattle and hogs to feed on soy meal, with rising estimates for 1966-67 soybean demand and with late crops in sight, it looks as if the excitement in the bean pit is far from over...