Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger had virtually a free hand in setting affairs of state from the time Nixon first began to get mired in Watergate. Even before that, Nixon had relied almost solely on Kissinger for high-level advice. His string of international coups that brought him super-human status--despite his previous role in charting an immoral war that killed thousands of people in North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos--began with, ironically enough, his sensational "Peace at Hand" trick mastered just in time to deal George McGovern the final death blow right before the 1972 election. Since then, Kissinger had shuttled back...
...watched Dave Hill stroke seven-irons off the Pleasant Valley Country Club practice tee, his words of two days earlier ran through my mind. Most pro golfers are, in the end, Southern, inarticulate and super-straight. But Hill, a wiry Coloradoan who downs three beers and two packs of cigarettes per tournament round, is something of an exception. Very rarely does he mince words about why he plays ("I need the money--I gotta pay that fuckin' alimony") or what he thinks about the places at which he plays ("They must have had a goddaman artist out there with...
...Name players--Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley...
...seat. This time around, he has four wheels instead of two and plays a heist artist with racing ambitions instead of a romantic outlaw biker. Fonda has dreams of glory on the fast track. To get himself a stake in the big time, he knocks over a large super market in a small California town...
...even-tempered head coach of the National Football League's Detroit Lions; of an apparent heart attack; in Pontiac, Mich. McCafferty joined the Baltimore Colts as an assistant offensive coach in 1959, succeeded tough-talking Don Shula as head coach in 1970 and guided the team to a Super Bowl victory in his first season. Less than two years later, he was dismissed by Colts General Manager Joe Thomas-ostensibly for refusing to bench Aging Star Quarterback Johnny Unitas (TIME, Aug. 5)-and signed on with the Lions in January...