You can try banning gimmes, but just understand that some guys will always beg for them. Last year one reasonably mature human being who occasionally writes for this magazine rode 75 miles through England and sat through most of dinner without saying a word because he had not been conceded a three-foot putt on the final hole at Formby Golf Club. He assumed that (a) because his team had already lost three ways and (b) because the putt was only to tie a press, it would be given. He was mistaken, having underestimated the killer instinct of his "friends." For weeks afterward he would still say to perfect strangers, "Let''s say you''re on the 18th hole of a match, you''re 3 down and ..."

I drifted off. The table had seen so many strange and sad There was a man in King City who had just stolen his grandma''s ''57 Chevy Impala to transport a harvest of dope, but first he had to stop by court to plead guilty to biting his wife. Then we spent a night talking to Victor, a shy Peruvian shepherd, whose land we camped on near Lost Hills. He told us that the black sheep always leads the pack because it walks faster, and that Orion''s belt is really called the Tres Marias. In Rosedale we were surrounded by junior high delinquents who kept disappearing to "yank" packs of Marlboros. In Twenty-nine Palms we met a Mexican jail runner who lived on earnings from cockroach races. T-bird, his favorite roach, never lost when beans and tortillas were at stake.

Though light in weight, Airbor magnetic drill has a powerful 1.6-hp air motor and 1,600-lb magnetic holding strength. With its extra rack, stroke length is extended to 10 1/4 in. Annular cutter capacity is up to 2 1/16 in. diam. Geared chuck adapter converts the unit to a standard drill press. The Slugger Air Force pneumatic drill, at 24 lbs, 6 1/4" high, is useful for confined area drilling. The drill''s features include a permanent magnet that turns on or off by air power, a cutter capacity of up to 1 1/16" diameter x 3/4" depth and the ability to use ShortSlugger cutters and frame cutters. These cutters'' geometry allows the operator to drill multi-layered truck frames in a single pass.

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