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Prendergast located his ball in a plugged lie behind a menacing mound. He took his heartiest cut and the ball appeared in the midst of a moving hash, travelling well, and alighted 15-feet from the pin...
...series had by no means been an assured commercial success from the start. It represented a bold gamble by Frost. He had been in Australia when Nixon left the White House on Aug. 9, 1974?and he immediately decided to try to pin the fading ex-President down to a TV contract. To Frost, Nixon's "likely unavailability" was a challenge; it was "the appeal of the impossible" that lured him. He telephoned an offer from Australia. For nearly a year, Nixon showed no interest...
...mystery to most of the Mafia too. Some Mob insiders believe they are a squad of "greenies"-gunmen lately brought illegally into this country from Sicily. Others say the .22 hits are the work of young Viet Nam War vets. Still other sources pin the killings on two seasoned triggermen of New York Drug King Carmine Galante. Whoever they are, they have brought the silenced .22 loud notoriety...
...under a plant root, twined by branches, behind a mound. The whole shot should have been contracted out to a capable excavation company. Vik resorted to a wedge, lacking a steam shovel, and the ball appeared with about a pound of mixed solids, plopping down 20 feet from the pin...
...author animates dreary economics lessons with did-you-know facts. For example it was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold...