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...kink in his swing, the rain was a godsend for still another pro: Florida's Dan Sikes, who was bothered bv dizzy spells, picked up in the second round and auit - only to get a second chance when the round was postponed. He fired a ten-under-par 62 that smashed the West-Chester Country Club record...
...third round, Arnold Palmer had to play head-to-head with Nicklaus; Jack shot a 65 to Palmer's 67. On the last day, it was Dan Sikes's turn. For 14 holes he held his own; then he broke. On the par-four 15th, he drove into the rough and took a bogey. Nicklaus coolly collected his par. Finishing with a 16-under-par 272, one stroke ahead of Sikes, Jack picked up a check for $50,000 that boosted his official 1967 earnings to $156,748 and broke his own two-year-old season record...
...exhibition season may have already settled the question (if there ever was any) of which team is the best in pro football. Quite possibly it has also settled the question of whether the American Football League, after seven years, is finally ready to play on a par with the N.F.L. As of last week, A.F.L...
...seem odd to put the cold war on a par with the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. Where was its Jena, its Marne or its Stalingrad? But Louis Halle, a longtime State Department adviser under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, and lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...
...third man was Jules Regis Debray, 26, a young French philosophy professor with sandy hair, wealthy par ents, and a circle of influential friends...