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...audience frequently interrupts Jackson with applause, but it is polite applause, not the huzzahs of which American political dreams are made. Afterward, a man in a brocade dinner jacket observes: "A great evening, just a great evening." But the pros in Jackson's entourage know better. They are unhappy with most of the speech, know that it lacked fire and vision, that Jackson should have had this audience standing on the tables. After dinner, a Los Angeles businessman approaches two of Jackson's aides and says: "I know he's a great...
...accomplished this with a swing that Nicklaus and other pros admire as "the soundest on the tour." (As a teen-age caddy, Miller spent more time practicing his swing than following the customer's ball, and earned a reputation as a poor bag bearer.) His iron play is phenomenal, time and again delivering the ball stiff to the pin, and he putts with the boldness and confidence that once distinguished the play of a not yet forgotten superstar-Arnold Palmer...
...success remains healthy: "I'm happy now because I'm hungrier for tournament wins than I thought I'd be. For a while there I didn't know if I had that drive." With Miller taking so large a portion from the pot, other pros may have a hungry season...
...good, easy way to break a kid into the pros," Walsh said...
MODELS OF THE CHURCH, by Avery Dulles (Doubleday; 216 pages; $5.95). Unusually popular for a work of theology, this book is already in its fourth printing. Jesuit Dulles, a leading U.S. Catholic theologian, writes cogently on the pros and cons of five current theories of ecclesiology (the theology of the nature of the church), making the proceedings accessible to laymen. Because ecclesiology underlies many other current debates in Christianity-such as ecumenism, authority and hierarchy, secular v. sacred mission-the book is important. In particular, Dulles rejects the "Institutional" model that characterized Catholicism until recent years, while seeing some value...