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...adventures with Dunn, writing, "Dunn teed up a ball and handed me a driver. By some fortunate dispensation of Providence, I happened to make a drive--all too frequently failing since of repetition in my 32 years of golf--and the ball went sailing over the embankment of the railroad track...this then having been the first ball ever struck on the Shinnecock Hills. It is needless to recall here the experience of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of American golfers since 1891 when I say that I at once became a convert to, and a devoted follower...
...couple are living for the moment in Rosalynn and Jimmy's ranch house at 1 Woodland Drive. Though the quarters are not up to par with the White House, they top Chip and Caron's last abode in Plains: an $8,100 mobile home near the railroad station...
...There have been all sorts of negotiations-on battleships, on railroad bridges, everywhere. We have followed the Organization of African Unity [O.A.U.] Manifesto on Southern Africa, which says that we must do everything possible to negotiate for a transfer of power from the minority to the majority, and only when this fails should we decide to fight. But everything has failed, all due to the intransigence of Smith. Up to about a year ago, we thought there was a possibility of change. Then we realized that this man was just playing with words. So we have taken up arms...
...biggest to date was the $2 billion Equity Funding scandal of 1973, in which 22 insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...
...called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously clutter the landscape...