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...hard three-part questions. Concentration calls for the ability to do just that. The idea is to remember the prizes hidden behind numbers and match two of them to win the object. Split Second offers a nicely sadistic bonus to the day's big winner. He gets to select a car from among five beauties, but may keep it only if he picks one whose motor is set to start...
...liked Hill. I couldn't gamble all my reportorial shots on following his play alone. Both Weiskopf, who was playing in the group ahead of Hill's and Weichers, who was playing with Hill, were capable of taking over the lead at any time. I had to select one or two key holes that would provide the crucial action. The 15th, 16th, and 17th, were all clubhouse holes, and by the time the last threesome would be coming through, the greens would be mobbed with over 30,000 sweating, screaming, beer-swigging Massachusetts sports fans, seasoned tough by fearful battles...
Ford's apparent determination to select a moderate who could help heal the nation's and party's wounds reduces the chances of several Republicans who may be too closely identified with the G.O.P.'s conservative or liberal wings. The conservatives would include Governor Ronald Reagan of California and Senator William Brock of Tennessee. Among the liberals: Senators Charles H. Percy of Illinois and Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and, surprisingly, former Senator Charles E. Goodell of New York. While a member of the House, Goodell helped his close friend Ford become minority leader in 1965. Goodell...
...House's Democratic leaders when impeachment became a possibility a year ago, a scant seven months after he had become Judiciary chairman. Speaker Carl Albert pointedly suggested to Rodino that, instead of giving the matter to the Judiciary Committee, the House should perhaps set up a special select body to conduct the inquiry. Rodino flatly refused to go along, and Albert gave way. (Later, the Speaker was to bless that decision: if a special committee had been set up, the Republicans could have stacked their membership with die-hard Nixon supporters, thus eliminating any chance of a bipartisan vote...
Harvard Management took control of the University's $1.4 billion endowment on July 1. Cabot has spent much of his time since April trying to select his small staff and about five outside management firms to handle small segments of the endowment...