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...penchant for thigh-high, pastel-colored skirts ("I wear miniskirts and maxi-legs"). And if worse comes to worst, she can always pick up a little change by challenging men to a driving contest. Probably the longest hitter on the ladies' tour, Carol consistently belts her drives 250 yds. or more, and there is little wrong with the rest of her game. Last month, in Atlanta's Lady Carling Open, she shot 66-66-68 for a 54-hole total of 200-16 under par and the lowest score ever recorded in a ladies' tournament...
...beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping the sand before it can be carried away. But the groins are only partly effective, and, like the navigational jetties, they also keep sand away from the beaches. Florida, despite prevalent use of groins, is still losing 20 million cu. yds. of sand each year...
...wire that acted as radar reflectors and electronic beacons that emitted continuous signals. Gauging the distance to their targets from these spots, the B-52s were able to bomb with uncanny accuracy; the big bombers, in fact, were able to walk their sticks of bombs to within 100 yds. of the perimeter of the Marine bastion. Flying the 5,200 mile round trip from their Guam base, they averaged 40 to 50 strikes each day. Hardly an hour passed without a bombload falling on the Communists. In ten weeks, a total of 103,500 tons of explosives were dumped...
...fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young. "A 450-pounder, at least...
...opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack...