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Peter Dobereiner, in recounting Crosby's exploit, wrote: "Stepping onto that tee, with the ocean crashing against the rocks below and the sea lions honking derision, the golfer is a tumult of emotions. Fear, awe, admiration and indecision fight for supremacy...Nowhere is he offered the chance of a richer prize or a more enormous failure. It is quite possible to stand on that tee and hit ball after ball into the Pacific and many a man has done so. On the other hand, Bing Crosby can look back and reflect that his life has not been in vain, even...
...long history of defiance and grievance, South Africa, and especially its ruling, Afrikaner-dominated National Party, has almost seemed born for conflict. Even so, the tumult that raged around the government of Prime Minister John Vorster last week may very well have set the stage for the supreme struggle between the Afrikaners and African nationalism...
Much of the tumult in the movement is now swirling around a Pentecostal group in Stony Brook. Long Island, called B'nai Yeshua (Sons of Jesus), which draws up to 200 people for Friday-night services and claims to run the world's first major "messianic training center." It has 30 students at present and 31 full-time evangelists who are waging a summer campaign...
After months of tumult and argument, the Administration's tax-cut bill cleared its final major congressional hurdle last week. But the Tax Reduction Act of 1977 that was approved by House-Senate conferees bears only a passing resemblance to the measure that the White House sent over in January. Missing from the legislation were two key proposals for stimulating the economy: the $50 per person rebate on 1976 taxes and an increased investment tax credit for business. The original bill would have resulted in new tax cuts for business and individuals totaling some $22 billion over...
...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...