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...After introducing a popular line of neckless irons, he hit upon the idea of Big Bertha. Callaway replaced an existing graphite club head with a hollow stainless-steel design weighted most heavily around the edges. "Perimeter weighting" gave Bertha a sweet spot like that of an oversize tennis racquet. Since hollow clubs already on the market were cracking too easily, Callaway improved the casting molds and added spines on the inner striking wall to diffuse shock waves. A onetime club champion who still hits a respectable drive, Callaway took Bertha out for testing and found he could loft the ball...
...powerful psychosocial forces. One is the Vector of Incompetence: if you can't hit a decent forehand or chip shot or jog half a mile without seeing spots, do you take yet another futile lesson or try once again to puff yourself into condition? No, you buy a new racquet, or set of irons, or a frightfully expensive pair of illusion-enriched running shoes...
...litigator mastering a complex brief. He is, by training and nature, an aggressive lawyer and lobbyist. Kantor sees himself not as a peacemaker but as a warrior who, as he puts it, "hates to lose." (Those who beat him at tennis have learned to watch out for his flying racquet.) He has represented migrant farmworkers and lobbied on behalf of giant oil and aerospace companies. Now, he says, he has two new clients: Bill Clinton and "the American worker...
Beyond that, nobody really had much to say about the match. What was there Women's Co-Captain Cartic Cunningham reduced her opponent to smashing her racquet against the wall and whimpering. Sophomore Libby Eynon second on the team hardly broke a sweat while loving with her opponent like a cat with a mouse...
Notre Dame comes to Cambridge today. Not Lou Holtz and his gang of semi-professional athletes, but Fighting Irish Coach Bobby Baylas and his squad of racquet wizards...