Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club heads, manufacturers have concentrated their weight as low as possible - adding power to even a duffer's swing. But for the final balancing of clubs - necessary to give a set of irons uniform "swing weight" - manufacturers until now have had to load the bottom of the shaft with bits of lead. Now Shamrock Golf Co. of Los Angeles has devised a technique for placing that additional weight in the club head itself - right at the "sweet spot" where metal meets ball (see cut). Shamrock leaves a hollow slot in the head, then fills each iron with a precisely...
...while it seemed as if Elizabeth Taylor were getting the diamond mine and Richard Burton the shaft. Now, apparently, the durable actor has rebounded from his recent divorce by acquiring a new Elizabeth-and royalty at that. Burton's latest love is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, a twice-married mother of three whose second husband is British Banker-Politician Neil Balfour. The romance began just last month while Burton was in London filming a biography of Sir Winston Churchill. "We are going to be married-that's definite," says Burton. "She has been a friend to Elizabeth...
Larry Hanawalt plays Squatriglia's awkwardness to a painful extreme, alienating us completely from any empathy we might have felt for his situation at least, so that we are left with the impression of an insect squirming on the shaft of a pin. Thus we lose the small saving irony of a Squatriglia being carried for a time into a certain belief in his own rhetoric, before Nada calls his bluff...
...days ago he thumbed through a copy of a sermon given out in the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, by Duncan Littlefair, a pastor who has been genially opposed to Ford's political theology for 30 years. It was a shaft of light in the pardon gloom that spread over Ford's enlightened beginning...
...Thrush (probably his best-known poem), named after a little ship sunk off its shores. A growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often probed in the diary. Consonant with that sun's pure shaft of light he perceived a terrifying black that seemed to trifle with life, as the deathly instant of blindness when you emerge from the sea in summer or the shock of an animal's eyes lit by the headlights on a car, before it is dark again...