Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...footer that seemed to die about two feet from the cup, then limped in for a birdie three! After a field-leading round of 67, he admitted that "I drove very good"-then quickly corrected the comment to "good enough." Palmer's most highly touted competitor, smooth-swinging young, (28), Ken Venturi, burned up the front nine with a 31, then collapsed, coming home with a weekend golfer...
Their shoulders were just beginning to smooth over with muscle, and their legs were still developing full power. Many had never competed in a national swimming meet. But before they were done with the A.A.U. championships held in Yale's Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium last week, the youthful American water bugs had served notice on the world-including the feared Australians and Japanese-that the U.S. was improving fast for the Rome Olympics next August. The A.A.U. meet was, in fact, the greatest in U.S. history: with 14 swimming events on the program, seven American records were broken...
...talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal more than was normally intended of the actress' smooth poitrine...
With the help of his smooth-running national organization, Presidential Aspirant John Fitzgerald Kennedy keeps a hungry eye on every likely delegate to the Democratic National Convention, strikes the pose of a man picking up entire state delegations in a dead-sure grip. But last week Jack Kennedy settled for a half-loaf of delegates in California (81 votes) and a half-grip on Kansas (21 votes), while his hungry-eyed associates insisted that this was all he ever wanted...
...Boasting. As he arrived home in Moscow, Western diplomats as well as Communists added up his performance. He succeeded in showing that Russia was peace-minded, but made little attempt to show that Peking was too. He was not always public-relations smooth. His rude lecturing on the evils of the multi-party state irked India's multi-party Parliament, and his arrogant boasts that Soviet aid is purely altruistic, whereas Western loans always have strings attached, provoked Nehru to comment that nations grant aid to other nations "on the ground of enlightened self-interest." In Indonesia, Khrushchev hurt...