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...holes, and the enormous greens had been shaved until only one-eighth inch of grass remained. Par had been lowered from 72 to 71, so tough that only 19 sub-par rounds were shot during the entire tournament. The lead skipped around as though the golfers were playing hot potato: Gene Littler, the first-day leader with a sparkling 69, sank rapidly to a tie for seventh, and five players held the lead at one point or another on the final day. In the end, though, only Palmer and Nicklaus remained, deadlocked at 283, just one under...
...East Germany the regime last week admitted that meat and milk production had fallen far short of the planned output. In Poland, which has largely returned to private agriculture, meat production is adequate, but floods have damaged much of the nation's essential potato crop. Bad weather has also struck Bulgaria, but this cannot excuse the fact that total farm production is only slightly higher than prewar. Wheat, once an export commodity, is now imported at a rate of up to 400,000 tons a year...
Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years...
...potato pancake, flattery, a lazy lout...
...Potato farmers are pulling for the bulls. ("It would be nice to have a bit of a shortage just once," sighed one grower.) But eying the piles of stored potatoes in the barns of Aroostook County, few farmers anticipate a price increase anywhere near that expected by the rampaging bulls. Even if the bulls do win, the Agriculture Department predicts that there will be little immediate effect on retail prices. But by June or July, the department says, the overall U.S. potato supply will probably dwindle enough to raise supermarket prices of potatoes back to year-ago levels of about...