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No one ever worked harder at golf than Nicklaus during his teens and early twenties. At the age of ten, in his first year of golf, Jack must have averaged three hundred practice shots and at least eighteen holes of play daily. In later years, he would often hit double that number of practice shots and play thirty-six—even fifty-four—holes of golf a day during the summer. I have seen him practice for hours in rain, violent winds, snow, intense heat—nothing would keep him away from golf.
Golf My Way
Jack Nicklaus, Jim McQueen, and Ken Bowden
the control frauds that were destroying Texas. At the same time that it was lobbying against the FSLIC recap, it was working on a “Report on the Texas Thrift and Real Estate Crises” (released October 30, 1987). The report explained that “entrepreneurs with backgrounds in real estate development either own or owned 20 of the 24 most deeply insolvent thrifts in Texas (with the remaining four copying the tactics of the real estate entrepreneurs)” (18). The report emphasizes that ADC loans “turned out to be veritable ticking time bombs whose subsequent explosions devastated substantial numbers of Texas thrifts” (10). Concluding that “while there was not anything necessarily wrong with this ‘grow out of it’ strategy,” it led to “frenzied growth” which “became an increasingly vicious cycle” (14, 15).
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
Although caught off balance by Torch, the Germans had moved swiftly and effectively. Before the unblooded American troops could advance, Axis troops had occupied Tunisia and fortified it with men and arms from Sicily. While the GIs trudged through the winter rains and the mud, Stuka dive bombers and Krupp 88 artillery pieces pounded them, their tanks, and the Allied air cover. Then, in February 1943, counterattacking Germans hurled the Americans back through Kasserine Pass. At the time, the pass seemed an Allied disaster. It turned out to be disastrous for the Axis. Patton replaced the corps commander there, recaptured the pass, and teamed up with Montgomery, who had arrived after chasing Rommel’s Afrika Korps all the way from El Alamein. The Germans in Africa were doomed; Rommel flew off to tell Mussolini and Hitler that his men must be evacuated. To survive, the Korps needed at least 140,000 tons of supplies every month, and the Allied navies’ command of the Mediterranean was reducing the German trickle from 29,000 to 23,000 to 2,000 tons. Mussolini and Hitler told Rommel he was a Cassandra. Look at Kasserine Pass, they said triumphantly; that was what happened when Aryan troops met mongrelized Americans. To Rommel’s horror, they were shipping men into the beachhead. Thus, when the Allies snapped their trap shut in early May, they bagged nearly a quarter-million POWs. This, combined with battlefield losses, meant the Axis had lost 349,206 in French Africa. The Americans, in their first campaign, had sustained just 18,500 casualties.
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
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