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...sport is a lackadaisical game of croquet. At a recent black-tie party, the vigorous wife of one official rushed up to him, ripped open his shirt and squealed, " 'Errveee, I thought everybody nice wore undershirts!" Hervé managed a weak grin, slunk off to a corner to button...
...ball and the ball's impact on screen enables the computer to calculate length of drive and probable roll within five yards. One of a bank of 30 lights behind screen is activated by ball and shows on screen as ball actually landing on fairway. Player presses a button and another picture appears taken from approximate position of ball. Player squints at the flag, picks his club, and swings again. On reaching the green, player putts into real hole from indicated distance. Then he presses the button again, and the screen shows him the fairway from the next...
Born. To Bob Newhart, 34, button-down comedian, and Virginia Quinn Newhart, 22, onetime TV extra: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...
...Luton goes, said the pundits, so may most other industrial areas where Labor has traditionally been strongest. Speaking more to Luton's floating voter than the faithful in Perth, the Prime Minister used every crossroads stopover last week to inveigh against the Labor Party's "card-index, button-pushing society." With a socialist government, said he, "we would be like puppets on long strings of red tape, with the strings pulled in Whitehall." To his listeners' delight, the Prime Minister invariably added: "As a Scotsman, I never think Whitehall knows best...
...shrewd airman who has lifted his line from a $945,000 loss in 1947, when he took it over, to earnings of $7,278,000 tor the first nine months of 1963. While he introduced such imaginative sales devices as the champagne flight and the napkin with a button hole, Drinkwater is fundamentally an efficiency expert. "We're great disciples of Mr. Parkinson," pipes Drinkwater, boasting that there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary to Mexico City...