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...presidential search commit- tee, which consists of several trustees, onestudent, one staff member and two faculty members,will recommend one of the three candidates to thefull board of trustees by Christmas...
...first flame was reported at 1:19 Tuesday afternoon, off the 16th tee of a golf course in Thousand Oaks, north of Malibu. Authorities suspect arson; in any case, the fire moved through the canyons in classic fashion, licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame...
Time for another fantasy retirement. Callaway sold his vineyard at a handsome profit to Hiram Walker & Sons, then bought a tiny golf-club company that made classic hickory-shafted wedges and putters. Under his tutelage, sales soon boomed. That was merely the tee-off. After introducing a popular line of neckless irons, he hit upon the idea of Big Bertha. Callaway replaced an existing graphite club head with a hollow stainless-steel design weighted most heavily around the edges. "Perimeter weighting" gave Bertha a sweet spot like that of an oversize tennis racquet. Since hollow clubs already on the market...
...indeed, the next day something unprecedented happened. The President canceled his 9 a.m. tee-off at the Farm Neck Golf Club to sleep in, read the papers and stroll around Oyster Pond, where specially outfitted gardeners had cleared away thickets of poison ivy. The McNamara house is spectacularly situated, at the end of a three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor...
...conducts business affairs." At least some were speaking from self-knowledge: 55% admitted cheating at golf at least once. The offenses included moving the ball to get a better lie (41% of the executives), not counting a missed tap-in (19%), taking an extra tee shot (13%), intentionally miscounting strokes (8%) and secretly producing a fresh ball while pretending to look for a wayward one in the woods (6%). Such behavior has dire implications for the nation's Better Business Bureaus, since one- third of those who confessed to cheating on the links also admitted to pulling fast ones...