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...that he white-knuckled three putts of less than a yard on the sixth, seventh, and eighth holes. He made his fourth straight bogey on number nine, a demanding 410-yd. par four with an elevated green flanked by traps, where his three-iron to the green caught the sand...
Raffi also found misfortune on the same par three 17th that plagued Dales and Lowenstein. He hit a fat three-iron from the tee that kerplopped into a bunker, and then he bladed his sand wedge shot over the green. After taking a double bogey there, however, he came back to birdie the par five 18th...
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author and philosopher (The Book of Sand): "The U.S. is a great power because it was left with no other choice, which is a form of decadence...
Himelman got off to a shaky start when he caught three sand traps on the first two holes. After taking a bogey on number one, his drive on the short par four second landed in the church pews of traps along the left of the fairway. He then beached his second shot as he had a fried egg lie in the greenside bunker, since the bunkers have been recently filled with finer sand. The best Himelman could manage was a double bogey...
...third of West Germany's electricity. The Army Corps of Engineers believes that electricity supplies could be increased significantly by expanding and improving existing hydroelectric power stations. Other alternatives will require technological breakthroughs. The fluidized-bed method of burning coal-essentially, burning a mixture of crushed coal and sand suspended on a column of air inside a superhot container-promises ultimately to make combustion more efficient while cutting down on pollutants. It is now in the experimental stage, but has yet to be made applicable to large-scale commercial operations. Unlocking oil from the vast deposits of shale rock...