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Fortnight ago, Packer gave her a sterner test. When a raging nor'easter swept into Newport from the slate-grey North Atlantic, he ordered Gretel to sea for a race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume...
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...
Father Lombardi's book, which received the approval of his Jesuit superior and an imprimatur from a local auxiliary bishop, has not been ordered withdrawn from print. But Vatican officials agreed that only placement on the Index could have been a sterner rebuke. Murmuring that his book was only the opinion of a "simple priest," Father Lombardi affirmed his loyalty to the church and retired to silence. Said one Vatican cleric: "Only the Pope is God's microphone...
...U.C.L.A., presents first-rate stage productions, drawing from an eager pool of movie and television actors. Anxious to get away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch in U.S.A., Edie Adams and Eileen Heckart in Mother Courage. Last week Paula Prentiss and Dan O'Herlihy opened in Houseman's superb new production of Measure for Measure...
November 11 is a day to reckon with. Armistices come and go, but Veterans, proud and valiant men that they are, are made of sterner stuff. The Nation and the State will honor them tomorrow with a holiday; the University will hold no classes; and the CRIMSON will publish a Saturday edition...