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Playing behind LoPucki, Jack Purdy took his match to the last hole before he lost, 1-down. He needed a five-foot putt to birdie the hole and win the match, but his put rolled to the pin and slid off the edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Double Eagle Leads Golfers In M.I.T. Win | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

...deplorable character, a petulant, scheming, vainglorious seeker of fame with the divine arrogance of one who declares that "he who is not with me is against me." He was also a collector of injustices; anyone who offended him but once was sure to feel the whiplash of his five-foot line. Those were the days before words went soggy in a Sargasso Sea of print. Men wielded words as deadly weapons, names had magical significance, and a barbed line could not be lightly shaken off by the hooked fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Gulliver Among Lilliputians | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Charlie Ajootian and Ed Nosal took one-two in the 35-pound weight with a five-foot margin over the visitors' Don Cybulski. Jim Coleman bounced over the high-jump bar at 6 feet 3 inches to lead teammate Don Wilks in a similar sweep...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Cindermen Trample Northeastern; Benka Smashes Shot Put Record | 1/15/1969 | See Source »

Productive Leisure. The memoirs are part of what is rapidly becoming Abel's own five-foot shelf of recollected life and works. In a recent interview published in the Russian youth magazine Smena, he describes the gracious pastimes that a KGB colonel like himself engages in during his spare time: playing Bach on the lute and the classical guitar, landscape drawing. Abel's most productive leisure hours were apparently spent in U.S. penitentiaries while serving 41 of his 30-year sentence for espionage. Here, he claims, he sketched a portrait of President Kennedy so fine that Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Advice to Young Spies | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...should merely want to stand by yourself without, participating, your best bet is to head for the empty five-foot semi-circle in front of one of the loud-speakers

Author: By Roger W. Sinnott, | Title: Psychedelic Discotheque Opened Here | 1/30/1967 | See Source »

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