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...Clyde's daughter, Harriet Beatty, 32, was just opening her lion-taming act at the Hamid-Morton Police Circus in Kansas City, Mo., when Leo, a surly 240-lb. two-year-old, rushed her, chomped down on her right arm and dragged her around until she loosened his grip by firing six blank pistol shots in his face. After the lacerations were patched up, Harriet still displayed that old family spirit by insisting: "Lion training is fascinating...
...hands can't feel to grip...
...French tried after World War II to mold Viet Nam into a tractable nation by vesting authority in a central government and playing off one village against another. Instead, the Viet Minh imposed a harsh unity in the country side that broke the French grip. In South Viet Nam, President Ngo Dinh Diem hoped to form a nation that was safe from Viet Cong influence by gathering the peasants into fortified hamlets. That idea died behind the barbed wire of the hamlets in 1963-along with Diem...
...came to $3,843.33. In 1964 Venturi finally won a big tournament-the U.S. Open-only to notice, a few months later, that his fingers were cold and the skin on his hands was peeling. In a game that depends almost entirely on feel, he could not even grip a club without his hands going numb. Doctors told him he had a circulatory ailment, advised him to give up golf. Venturi stubbornly refused to quit, and went out to defend his championship in the 1965 Open. He shot a dreadful 81-79, failed even to survive the second round...
There are several things rather remarkable about South African Golfer Sewsunker Sewgolum. One, of course, is his name, which comes from his Indian forebears. The second is his unorthodox, cross-wristed golf grip (he puts his left hand under his right). And the third is the fact that he can even play golf at all in a land where, by law, whites share the game only with whites, and nonwhites with nonwhites. Last week Sewgolum found himself the center of one of the most ludicrous episodes in the history of the sport-but about par for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd...