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...fooling him. "They want the old man to practice," he says. Corporate setbacks have recently conspired with creaking muscles to limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight one. Color-blind to begin with (Hart Schaffner and Barbara have dressed him for years), Nicklaus has lost the horizon. He mourns, "I'm missing the pleasure of watching my golf ball finish--I can't see that far anymore." Throughout the tournament, he was forever asking...
Kansas City is the center of the sticky craze, and the pioneer there is the T.J. Cinnamons Bakery, opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in January 1985. T.J.'s workers shaped the ball of dough (called by some a brain) into buns and baked them nine to a pan in full view of the public. The proud creators were Ted and Joyce (thereby the initials T.J.) Rice, he a television cameraman and she an elementary-school teacher. After tireless testings of their recipe on friends, they arrived at the right formula. "I thought it should have a high center...
...other hand, perhaps our indignation over this snub is another example of Harvard arrogance. Sure, other presidents have made it here for anniversary celebrations. Harvard has had luminaries like King Juan Carlos, Alexander Solzhynitsin, Olaf Palme, Giscard d'Estaing, and even Burt Ward visit recently. But it took four years for Reagan to find the time to meet with any Soviet leader, and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachov still gets put on hold when he calls to wish Ron a happy birthday. So who are we to complain...
Javits' father, a onetime Talmudic scholar from the Ukraine, worked as a janitor. He was also a ward heeler for the Tammany Hall Democratic machine, an unsavory sideline that later helped drive the son to the Republicans. After working his way through Columbia University and New York University School of Law, Jack Javits joined a law firm started by his older brother Ben. During World War II he received a commission with the Army's chemical-warfare department, emerging with the rank of lieutenant colonel and an offer from the impotent Manhattan G.O.P. to run for Congress in 1946 from...
...nonpartisan comments of U.S. Attorney William Weld--a Republican--on Saturday may have all but eliminated Republican Ed-ward F. Harrington as a serious challenger for the Attorney General's Office, narrowing the race to the two leading Democratic candidates, according to political experts...