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...started out on his trail-blazing round by clipping his ball with a sand wedge as cleanly as a dandelion head and then sinking a tap-in for par. On the third hole he had "an unreal par," punching a shot from overarching tree limbs while down on his knees...
...charges of criminal misconduct was a necessary and welcome first step in exposing and redressing the FBI's illegal activities over the last several years. Between late 1970 and June, 1972, Kearney allegedly ordered members of the Bureau's internal security division to commit burglaries, illegally open mail and tap telephones of several New York based left wing organizations...
...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
DEEP WELLS. By sinking wells, Egyptian geologists are attempting to tap the vast underground reservoirs that are believed to lie beneath the Western Desert, some of them as much as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) below the sand. "Getting at this water," says Egyptian Geologist Rushdi Said, "will make it possible for man to again live in the desert." But only for a while. Filled at the rate of only millimeters a year, these reservoirs of fossil waters are replenished so slowly that for all practical purposes their contents are finite. Though they may yield water for centuries...
...curtail waste of energy and tap the nation's coal reserves so that the U.S. can stretch out oil and gas supplies until past the turn of the century, when new sources of energy, such as fusion, geothermal and solar power, will be coming on-stream in a significant way. Though it is still subject to change, here is how the Administration's new energy program now looks...