Word: attack
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...credited with restoring the Congolese economy by stabilizing the currency and turning the national treasury's $265 million deficit into a $250 million surplus. Mobutu's one-man rule has worked so well, in fact, that many foreign diplomats, mindful that he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, worry about what would happen if he were no longer in command. They know full well that the Congo's new-found tranquillity could disappear quickly in a moment of national crisis. Only three weeks ago, a small band of Simba rebels seized the town of Kalemin...
...American Medical Association, long under attack by liberals and now by the radical left as an obstacle to medical progress and a bastion of money-minded reaction, displayed a split personality at its annual convention in Chicago last week...
When we build a course, says Golf Course Architect Robert Trent Jones, "we think of ourselves as being in combat with the golfer. We're on the defense, and he's on the attack...
Their sharpest attack ever, though, was leveled last week at the ogre of a course that Jones conjured up for the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., site of the 1970 U.S. Open. Jack Nicklaus took one turn around the rolling, twisting, 7,151-yd. layout-the longest par-72 course in U.S. Open history-and groused: "On eleven of the 18 holes, you can't even see the area where the drives land." Billy Casper complained that on many approach shots he needed radar to spot the flagsticks. Bert Greene, experiencing similar problems, decided to "shoot...
Died. The Maharajah of Jaipur, 58, one of India's princely ex-rulers, who until independence in 1947 ranked among the world's richest men; of a heart attack, while playing polo; in Cirencester, England. In return for his throne, the government granted him an income-tax-free stipend of $240,000 a year and, though that was scarcely enough to maintain five palaces and 200 elephants, the Maharajah continued to support the string of polo ponies of which he was so fond...