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...army met the troops at high noon last Thursday. As Arnold Palmer walked toward the 10th tee in the first round of the Bay Hill Invitational, his still impressive gallery blended in with the huge horde following Tiger Woods, who was about to tee off on the first hole. As you might expect when once and future kings collide, many of the old Army loyalists deserted the 67-year-old Palmer in favor of the 21-year-old Woods, and, indeed, the phenom rewarded his faithful with a four-under-par 68, one shot off the lead. Palmer, meanwhile, struggled...
...seeing a golf tournament for the first time. Among the humorous vignettes this produced: "What does it mean by negative 13?" one woman asked a score-board operator. A man approached a writer early in the day and asked: "What's the agenda here?" When told the leaders would tee off in two hours he asked, "And where would that happen...
...chief of staff to tee up decisions for the President and to take care of the ones he shouldn't be bothered with. The role requires someone with strong political judgment, not an honest broker--unless Clinton himself plans to spend more time down in the weeds this term. "The White House makes ideas, it makes policies," says a senior official. "Erskine would come and ask us what we need"--as a good manager might ask subordinates in a business--"and people would look back at him kind of baffled. What they needed was an answer--what does the President...
...also happens to have dark skin and an incandescent personality. The prospect of his success in a nearly all-white sport gives him a marketing potential as remarkable as his distance off the tee. Thus Nike and the golf-ball maker Titleist combined to guarantee Woods a reported $43 million during the next five years for product endorsements. While other golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman have parlayed their championship standings into huge fortunes made off the course, Woods has the potential to take that money-spinning skill to a new level. Even though golf lacks...
...chair and secretary of the group, Tweed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who donated the antler chandeliers which have illuminated the Great Hall for decades) and H.A. Crosby Forbes '50, the commit- tee members wrote over 100 letters to President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles and Director of Planning for FAS Philip J. Parsons...