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...type of athletes who attract groupies, golfers do have their fans, and, apparently, they don't all wear plaid. Last week during the first round of the British Open, TIGER WOODS got an eyeful on the 18th hole when an enthusiastic onlooker with seemingly few body-image issues sprang from the crowd to demonstrate her admiration. The unidentified woman embraced and kissed the not entirely reluctant golfer before running off. "Luckily, she didn't have a lot on," said a relieved Woods, "because if someone comes out of the stands like that and has a lot of clothing...
...office towers of Midland are monuments to the high hopes and short memory of man. The downtown buildings, which rise 20 stories above the West Texas scrub, sprang up during the good years--mid-'50s, late '70s, early '90s--and stand half-empty during the bad. In 1973, Midland's most feverish era was touched off by the Arab oil embargo, and suddenly everyone who had ever lived in or passed through the place came looking for oil. When George W. showed up in 1975, not yet 30, he was a curious amalgam of West Texas and East Coast...
...brown limousine nosed through the post-game crowd carrying General Omar Bradley. All Cadets sprang to the curb and snapped to attention; the Harvard partisans continued undisturbed down the road to the parking lots," The Crimson wrote...
...brown limousine nosed through the post-game crowd carrying General Omar Bradley. All Cadets sprang to the curb and snapped to attention; the Harvard partisans continued undisturbed down the road to the parking lots," The Crimson wrote...
...Whitehead's Principia Mathematica) in which theorems, following strict rules of inference, sprout from axioms like limbs from a tree. This process of theorem sprouting had to start somewhere, and that is where the axioms came in: they were the primordial seeds, the Ur-theorems from which all others sprang...