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...will not be easy to win any or all of the upcoming tournaments. Golfdom's perennial Big Four?Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Billy Casper?are still potent, and the sport has a host of other aggressive young stars (see box) who in any given week can run off with the big money. Clearly, though, no other golfer is about to match Trevino's record in 1971. At 31, he is in his prime?and is working through the hottest streak of his career. In addition to finishing among the top five money winners in nine...
...signal has not gone unheeded. In 1969, Michigan banned sales of DDT; Traverse City's cherry growers also stopped using related poisons. Even so, the pesticides already in the environment will remain potent for years, and Lake Michigan is surrounded by home gardeners who use other persistent poisons. All the citizens of Traverse City can do now is rake their reeking beaches and hope for a miraculous return of the gulls-the area's best and cheapest garbagemen...
...record conversation with Kissinger in which they denounced the President's decision to invade Cambodia-one of the most publicly effective objections to national policy has been the opposition of Kissinger's most eminent colleagues. But within government and Washington society, one of Kissinger's most potent weapons is a widespread impression that Harvard really doesn't want him back, that academia is discriminating against him because of his policy, that Harvard's faculty is as totalitarian as the enemy...
When Francis Burr came to his house on December 13 and offered him the job, Bok asked for ten days to think it over. Later he reflected, "Being asked to do something for an institution like Harvard exercises a very potent appeal that is hard to gauge until...
Harvard has an extremely potent offense on paper this spring, but the batting lineup has yet to reach its true potential. Pete Varney has rarely seen a good pitch all season and Dan DeMichele has been the only consistent hitter...