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...task of running the U.S. foreign aid program was known as one of Washington's quickest routes to early retirement. In its first 13 years, the program consumed no fewer than nine directors, none of whom lasted longer than two years. By such standards, the program's tenth director has been an exemplar of endurability. Last week, when David E. Bell, 47, turned in his resignation as administrator of the Agency for International Development, he had put in a record three and a half years...
Nobody got particularly excited when Palmer bogeyed Olympic's par-four tenth hole, cutting his lead over Casper to six strokes-especially after both golfers parred the eleventh hole and birdied the twelfth. Nobody got alarmed when Arnie lost a second stroke at the par-three 13th. After the 14th, with four holes to go, he still had a five-stroke lead. Then, with incredible swiftness, disaster struck. On the par-three, 150-yd. 15th hole, Palmer's No. 7 iron shot strayed off line and caught a yawning sand trap to the right of the green...
Watson was very pessimistic about the future of the housing problem. It probably won't get better, he said, until the completion of the Tenth House...
...tenure was hardly the fault of the bonzes, who for months have been trying every trick in the pagoda political manual to oust the government: massive protest demonstrations, immolations (last week a 16-year-old girl became the tenth suicide by fire in the monks' current campaign), blocking streets with household altars, burning U.S. Jeeps and other vehicles, and riots, riots everywhere. All have proved to no avail...
...Shamsky, he cuts loose a back-breaking curve. Strike three! Meanwhile, he has scored one Giant run himself, driven in two others with a 385-ft. double. The Giants win, 5-3, and Juan Marichal (pronounced Mah-ree-chal) marches off to the clubhouse with what he wants-his tenth straight victory of the year. He is earning $70,000 a year, is the No. 1 pitcher in baseball at this point in the season, and is a hero to thousands of fans...