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...Unbelievable," sighed Palmer. "Fantastic," agreed Player. So what's next for Jack Nicklaus? Well, there's always the Grand Slam, the unrequited dream of every golfing great. He would only have to win the Masters, U.S. Open, P.G.A. and British Open-all this year, of course. "And why not?" demanded Jack. "After all, I'm the only...
...15th Amendment. More important, it is aimed precisely at the barricades that have delayed quick action in the past. Significantly, most of the power to act in voting cases would be moved out of the courts and into the hands of the executive branch. The bill would slam hardest at its biggest targets -those states with the most outstanding records of voter discrimination...
...your article on Phil Spector, today's pacesetter in rock 'n' roll [Feb. 19]: nearing 20, my taste in music has tended to drift away from the slam-bam, guitar-twangin', noise-styled rock 'n' roll, but I still maintain a liking for the work of Spector, who should be thanked for his efforts to raise the music of his time to artful expression...
...tests off San Diego, the Mark-46, equipped with dummy instead of high-explosive warheads, sought out and struck highly maneuverable nuclear submarines with unerring accuracy. One especially determined Mark-46 survived its initial collision and proceeded to slam again and again into the target sub. To escape damage to his boat, the skipper swiftly surfaced; the Mark-46 is prevented by its programming from returning to shallow depths, where it might turn upon and destroy the ship that fired...
GOLDFINGER. Another slam-bang spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) testing his mettle with a gilded nude, a shapely henchwoman named Pussy Galore, and a master criminal who plans to pry the gold out of Fort Knox...