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Next year might actually bring some improvement if Henry is lucky enough to get a new set of golf clubs for Christmas-clubs with aluminum shafts. Like the steel tennis racket, the aluminum-shafted golf club is being touted as a breakthrough of science. For 15 years, club manufacturers have been trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass...
Noting that illegal abortion is the largest racket in the country behind gambling and narcotics Drinan defended the "deterrent value" of abortion laws...
...racket reverberated briskly from an article in the magazine Washingtonian contending that there were seven good tennis players in the Senate, only one of whom-New York's Jacob Javits, 63-is a Republican. When Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...
...everybody who has tried the T2000 swears by it. "You have to learn to adjust your swing," admits Scott. "With a wooden racket, you may take a 1½-yard backswing to hit the ball to a specific point on the court. With steel, you may have to cut that backswing in half to hit that same point." For ordinary players, the T2000 might be a trifle expensive, costing up to $55 (strung with top-grade gut) compared with $35 for a good wooden racket. Even so, Wilson already has sold several thousand T2000s, says its sales director...
...Perfectly legal under tennis rules, which specify the size, weight and bounceability of the ball, but say nothing about the racket...