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Next day, Palmer's cold putter suddenly turned hot: he shot a three-under-par 69 that put him two strokes ahead of the fast-fading pack. The critical play came at the fearsome. 485-yd. eleventh hole-"the worst hole I've ever played," said Palmer-where three players already had scored sextuple-bogey elevens and Nicklaus later staggered to a ten. Splitting the narrow fairway with a No. 1 iron. Palmer sent a No. 2 iron shot whistling onto the green, just 20 ft. from the pin. Coolly, he stepped up and sank the putt...
Elected for a second term in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide, Black became one of the most fervent New Dealers in Congress. He backed revisionary New Deal legislation on labor, utilities, industry and finance. He supported Roosevelt's ill-fated plan to pack the Supreme Court. He was a relentless Senate investigator, successfully raking up corrupt practices in Government mail-carrying subsidies and in lobbying for utility holding companies (he favored public power); sometimes his inquisitorial tactics were criticized as being in violation of the Bill of Rights...
Make a Million. The record books are full of young flashes who blaze briefly and then fade into the pack of good but not great professional golfers. Nicklaus seems to be made of sterner stuff. Twice National Amateur champion (in 1959 and 1961), Nicklaus was, until his decision to turn pro last November, the most talked-about amateur since Bobby Jones. He played in his first U.S. Open as a fuzzy-cheeked 17-year-old. In 1960, at 20, he finished second by two strokes to Palmer, and his 72-hole score of 282 was the lowest ever shot...
...record. If he cannot within half an hour, "I'll pack up and quit. I've got too much pride to race as an also...
...their heritage calls for, and it gradually degenerates into anarchy, barbarism and murder. When adult rescue finally comes, they are a tribe of screaming painted savages hunting down their elected leader to tear him apart. The British naval officer who finds them says, "I should have thought that a pack of British boys would have been able to put up a better show than that." Then he goes back...