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...oddest Masters in years. Complaining that the grass on Augusta's fairways was too high. Player shot a first-round 75 and never got back into contention. Palmer had all kinds of trouble with his putter and the par-five 13th hole. And Nicklaus? Playing like any duffer, he staggered through a second-round 79, missed the 36-hole cut, and joined the spectators-staying around the last two days only to perform the formality of helping the new champion into his winner's blazer...
...museum's earliest crude stone implements take cavemankind back to about 100,000 B.C. More recent galleries commemorate the multifaceted Arabic culture that flourished from the 10th to the 13th centuries after Christ. In between are writings older than the Bible,* the world's oldest statuary, and 25-ton winged bulls with plaited beards and human heads that were once used to ward off evil from palaces and temples near Nineveh...
During its 13th century heyday as a Mediterranean trading power, Genoa came to be known as "La Superba" -which, since it can be taken to mean "the haughty," was not necessarily a compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...
This weekend the club heads for New York to play St. Peter's, Columbia, and the N.Y. Athletic Club, and will face Brooklyn Poly, Fordham, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Army, before closing the season at Yale on the 13th...
...golden boy" won the 500-yd freestyle, swam a leg of the free relay and turned in a swift 51.2 clocking for the butterfly leg of the medley relay. Yale took both relays and churned to its 13th straight...