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...Geneva the ill-fated conference on Korea and Indo-China was close to an abortive end. Characteristically, the Communists had used the talking time to increase their military pressure in IndoChina and had refused to move a fraction of an inch toward a reasonable basis for negotiation with the West. Such fresh evidence of unrelenting Communist purpose should have driven the Western nations closer together, but it had no such effect...
...year Chief Greenskeeper Edward Casey and his staff worked over the course, improving the turf, coddling the greens. This week 30 maintenance men swarmed over Baltusrol, shaving the greens to a regulation three-sixteenths-inch height while power mowers droned along the edges of the fairways, barbering the marginal rough to a 2½inch crew cut (in the deep rough-"tiger country" to the pros-the grass is five inches high and very thick). Workers unreeled nearly ten miles of rope, fixing it into place along the entire course with 2,100 stakes (for the first time in Open...
...balls into a staked-out, 35-yard circle (Baltusrol's fairways average 35 yards in width) and putting into a three-inch cup (the official U.S.G.A. cups are 4¼ inches in diameter), had honed his game to a wicked keenness. His body showed few signs of age, approximately the same dimensions of 18 years ago: height...
...Publishers rightly feel that because of competition, increases in advertising rates and the sales price of their papers are fast approaching the limit, that the only recourse is to cut costs more. In the last two years hundreds of dailies have trimmed the size of their pages by an inch or more. By doing so, the New York Herald Tribune has made an estimated saving of more than $400,000 a year in newsprint...
...recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...