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...DOUBLES--Puttermand and Stout (P) def. Horne and Kirsch...
...this season of rain the linksters pine for the first hint of spring, when they can remove their dusty clubs from their winter quarters. The first shot of spring has a mystical significance as the golfer stands on the tee looking somewhat like Keats' "stout cortez" as he surveys his shot sailing over the unsullied fairway...
...episode should be instructive to a country that has long been beset with doubts about its overall foreign aid program. It is particularly ironic that Washington should have given such a hospitable reception to a big, unexpected outlay in these tight times. Earlier, Congress had been expected to offer stout resistance to an Administration proposal for a $159 million increase, to $6 billion, in economic and military aid worldwide for fiscal 1980. Last week's events probably will not alter that prospect dramatically, but they at least raise the possibility that the nation might be moved to renovate...
...starve them out. The British left under cover of darkness the morning of March 17, 1776. So remember, when you see the cloud of green that envelops Southie as the great day approaches, it's George Washington, not St. Paddy, that the Kellys and Flynns are toasting with stout...
Some states have slapped extremely high taxes on liquor and created state-run monopolies to sell it, at a stout profit. A prime example is Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board, which has become the nation's biggest buyer of alcoholic beverages (last year's total: 11 million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks...