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Golfers have a curious way of paying their respects to a course. They cry. For last week's U.S. Open, St. Louis' Bellerive Country Club was stretched out to 7,191 yds., longest in the tournament's history: one hole (the 17th) measured 606 yds. from tee to green. "Ridiculous," said Julius Boros. Another pro wailed that the fairways were so narrow, "you have to walk them single file." Ditches and water hazards bisected twelve of the 18 holes-to say nothing of 74 sand traps, 6-in.-deep Bermuda rough, and the big, slick greens. Complained...
...Association Championship, by one-half length over favored Cornell; on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. Bucking a 12-m.p.h. head wind, the fast-stroking (36 strokes per minute) Middies pulled into an early lead in the 15-boat field, fought off a strong challenge by Cornell in the last 150 yds. to win the three-mile race...
...through a 57.3-sec. first quarter, a second rabbit helped him to a 1-min. 56.5-sec. half, a third man pushed him to 2 min. 57.2 sec. at the three-quarter mark. From there on, Jazy sprinted out ahead, finished with a dash that put him 45 yds. ahead. He then coolly noted that the footing on the track was poor be cause it had been chopped up by too many earlier races. "Without this," he said, "I could have done...
...Curious to learn whether a volcano can make its own lightning, without "thunderclouds, a team of U.S. and Icelandic scientists studied the volcano that is forming the new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. In Science, they report that they rode a fishing boat to within 250 yds. of the roaring vent, and flew in an airplane close to the hot, black plume. Once they saw rocks a foot in diameter tossed above their plane. They escaped injury and satisfied their curiosity: volcanoes do manufacture lightning...
...time he was 18, Charlie Matson's boy was already a big man around the Panhandle town of Pampa, Texas. Naturally-he stood 6 ft. 61 in. tall and weighed 210 lbs. He also averaged 15 points a game for Pampa High's basketball squad, ran 50 yds. for the winning touchdown against archrival Amarillo High, and was practically a one-man track team-heaving the 12-lb. shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling the discus 192 ft. 3 in., running 100 yds. in 10.3 sec. More than 100 colleges made him offers, and the University...