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Casper's chance discovery befits the mystique surrounding putting, the most delicate and distressingly difficult aspect of golf. In quest of an elusive "feel," professional golfers will try anything short of witchcraft to find the right putter. They experiment constantly, switching from wood shafts to glass, straight shafts to curved, aluminum heads to lead. In his heyday, Ben Hogan roamed the greens with a brass, center-shaft club the head of which was fashioned from an old doorknob. For a while Sam Snead tried putting between his legs, croquet style, with something that looked like an undernourished sledgehammer. Arnold...
...late summer, and I am standing on a beach; the sand is the same golden brown color as the disappearing sun. A sparkling shaft of light moves with me as I run. I am very young; maybe ten, because I remember that my sister is the girl whose hand I am holding. We are laughing, tan all over, with plump brown stomachs hanging...
...microwave ovens are a potentially dangerous source of radiation, Johnson quickly alerted the public, then helped to write strict new radiation standards. To combat black lung disease, which now afflicts about 100,000 miners, he established interim limits on the amount of airborne coal dust permitted in a mine shaft, until Congress finally set permanent standards last year...
...surrealistic gravity the members vie with one another to produce the mendacious explanation that will link the tragic event to the worldwide Communist conspiracy. Scarcely has this problem been resolved when another arises. The President's troublesome liberal-minded wife is stabbed to death with the headless golf shaft that held a "Make Love, not War" placard. With the election only six weeks away, the President (Peter Bonerz) has no time for grief and after another Cabinet conclave the cause of death proves to be Communist food poisoning. That's about all the plot there is, except...
...librarians then installed a sign next to their pad saying that if anyone objected to what was written, he should tear off the sheet but leave the pad. The pad was later discovered at the bottom of the elevator shaft...