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Putts on the Rug. In 1932 he struck out for Los Angeles with $75 and big ideas about making the winter tour. A month later he was back in Fort Worth, broke. The following winter, he went west again, got as far as the Agua Caliente Open (where he won no prize money) and the Phoenix Open (where he picked up $50). He had turned in some good scores for 18 holes, but he had no consistency. It taught him one lesson: "There's no such thing as one good shot in big-time golf. They all have...
...pulled the rug out from under Samuel Wolchok, boss of the strife-torn Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union, and ordered the C.I.O.'s powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers to take over Wolchok's territory...
...Friendly Climate. Busy with the problems of Europe and the cold war, the State Department all but swept Latin America's problems under the rug. The tightly integrated policy of Good Neighbor days had been disposed of in the same way. The constant plugging of democracy (a campaign backed up by U.S. dollars) had been cut to ribbons. With neglect, Latin America's frail democracies tended to wither, and U.S. prestige sank...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
...near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric designs of a Mexican...