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Spring is in the air (fore), and old men's fancies are returning to thoughts of golf, an ancient reverie that may seem to have lost a little romance since Jack Nicklaus began driving recently with a metal wood. But maybe...
...tongue and on the ball, metal wood is the dumbest-sounding oxymoron since jumbo shrimp. But, like television journalist, its usage has proliferated beyond the inventors' dreams. Once lovingly crafted of tempered wood, the heads of drivers are going steel. If even Nicklaus is bonging these days instead of bashing, the game has certainly changed. "I still hit the ((old)) persimmon club one or two yards longer," he estimates with charming precision, "but I hit the metal wood straighter. That's what convinced me. I feel very confident now that I'm going to drive the ball in the fairway...
...Wood said that he no longer cared about themake-up of the committee. "This is no longer aBoard of Overseers committee," he said. "It is aliaison with the Corporation--basically anotherway of buying time...
...Wood said that he was most concerned by thelack of a timetable for the committee. Butler saidhe hoped that the group would act by Commencement,but he had not made any firm guidelines...
...would hope that some time frame would beintroduced. We have not moved forward on thisissue since December--a lot has happened in SouthAfrica since December," Wood said. "We are on awarped time frame already. We're discussing issuesthat have been relevant for three years...