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...Pine Beach...
...White River National Forest, the 20-man "safari" struck out up a narrow, wooded trail for three miles, then broke out on top at 10,000 ft. onto untouched snow fields. Under blue skies and a dazzling sun, sportsmen zigged and zagged lazily back down the mountain, through pine trees and leafless aspen, pausing only for a lunch of coffeecake and hot chocolate in an alpine meadow. Meanwhile, at Lancaster, N.H., the emphasis was on all-out action: 121 competitors, vying for 56 trophies and cash prizes, slammed through bone-jarring, cross-country or downhill obstacle races...
...five, he was hole high after two wood shots; although he cautiously used irons off some of the tees, four times he hit drives over 300 yds. Pitching? On the 18th, Jack's second shot left him 90 yds. short of the green, under a tall pine. He had to hit the ball low enough to miss the tree, hard enough to reach the green, high enough to clear a trap-and then stop. Whack-8 ft. from the pin. Putting? On the 12th hole, Nicklaus ran in a 25-footer, on the 16th a 40-footer...
Vegetation, too, suffers from polluted air-even in rural areas that until recently were believed to be out of the range of contamination. Sulphur dioxide causes leaves to dry out and bleach to a light tan or ivory color, kills the tips of grasses and of pine and fir-tree needles...
...check the board ends to see whether they were sawed off with an electrical circular saw, which leaves curved lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where the old thunder mugs were kept...