Word: grips
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...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...
...much, because the French are businessmen. No patriotic American should even think of visiting France until De Gaulle is removed. And let us refuse to buy wines, perfumes, jewelry, clothing-anything that comes from France, until that happy day when France is released from this dictator's grip...
...event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that, unlike the old barbed wire, makes any hand grip impossible. The Wall is now nicely whitewashed; besides the esthetic consideration, this gives the Grepos a better backdrop for shooting...
...military of a Cuba-type "quarantine" of Sihanoukville. But the idea hardly pleases U.S. diplomats. However annoying they find Sihanouk's warm embrace of Hanoi's cause, they recognize that he is engaged in a delicate balancing act to keep his country out of the Communist grip. Even if he fully appreciated the magnitude of the infiltration-as he does not seem to-and were determined to kick the Communists out, his 30,000-man army could hardly cope with the North Vietnamese regulars...
...cardinal, thereby gaining overnight a statesmanlike image. At home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class Italian population. Since the city suffered no riots last summer, Tate also kept a grip on the predominantly Democratic Negro voting bloc, 226,000 strong. Many of Philly's Negroes are city employees who appreciate Tate's generous salary boosts and pensions...