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...blazer belonged to Brewer. On the last day, trailing Bobby Nichols, Julius Boros and Bert Yancey by two strokes, he wiped out that margin with three straight birdies on the 13th, 14th and 15th holes. When he trudged onto the 18th green to line up an 18-ft. putt, he was leading Nichols by one stroke, Yancey by four and Boros by five. Taking no chances, Gay lagged the ball to within 2 ft. of the hole, tapped in for a 67 and a 72-hole total of 280-eight under par-and went off to collect...
...Rainwater and William L. Yancey have written a book about the con-controversy that ensured [The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy, M.I.T. Press (forthcoming)] and much that here follows draws on them. Predictably, albeit unbeknown to the White House, trouble began within the permanent government, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. calls the civil-service bureaucracies. The report and the speech were wholly the product of the Presidential government. The welfare bureaucracy knew nothing of either, but as closer inquiry put the two together it was instantly perceived that the adequacy of the welfare bureaucracy's efforts and even...
...truth, the Payton paper bordered on the psychopathological. (Although perhaps not: it was broadcast by the hundreds at the time, and achieved its objective brilliantly. But when Rainwater and Yancey recently asked to reproduce it in their book, Payton declined.) Charles M. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White, called it "the most blatant distortion that I can remember seeing in a long time." In a letter to a Presbyterian minister he wrote...
Trademark. In San Francisco, Process Server Guy E. Yancey, 19, quit his job after delivering his first summons because the recipient mistook him for a burglar, threw him to the floor, tied him up with twine, kept him bound until cops arrived...
...JOHN YANCEY Los Angeles...