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...have a hook, forget it. Even with a well-placed drive, you've got to burn your second shot-usually a one-or two-iron for me. You have to drop the ball right on top of the plateau on the green or face a 45-ft., nerve-tester approach putt that will break in two directions...
...model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain on my allowance. Thank you. A Concerned Consumer...
...Price Commission referred the complaint to its enforcement arm, the Internal Revenue Service, which sent an agent to the Tester plant. The IRS issued a notice of violation to Tester for clearly exceeding the 2.5% price increase guideline. Last week the Cost of Living Council announced that the Justice Department has filed a suit charging Testor with unlawfully collecting revenues in excess of $150,000. The suit also complained that Testor had hiked the price of its spray paint by 14% and recommended that a federal court order the company to reduce its prices enough to allow customers a saving...
Jones was inspired to invent his tester by highway statistics, which show that half of the drivers involved in fatal accidents have alcohol in their blood. But the device−which is designed to screen drunks by testing judgment, visual acuity, short-term memory and coordinated motor response−will also weed out drug users and those who are mentally or physically deficient. To satisfy the demanding gadget, a driver must be able to read the relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds...
Before any such laws are passed, Jones must build a few additional safeguards into his brainchild. How, for example, can the tester prevent an inebriated driver from cheating by calling on a friend or parking-lot attendant for help...