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...Nicklaus, now 40, had won 66 tournaments, including 17 in the great competitions of golfs major tournaments: three U.S. Opens, five Masters, three British Opens, four P.G.A. championships and two U.S. Amateur championships. But he had not won any tournament since July 1978. Last year he slipped to 71st place on the list of P.G.A. money winners after 17 consecutive years in the top four. As recently as a week before Baltusrol, at the Atlanta Golf Classic, he had performed so poorly that he was eliminated after two rounds. With his putts stopping short, his drives wandering into the rough...
...like no other golfer in history. His Masters record forms the core of his unprecedented list of 15 Grand Slam titles: five Masters, three U.S. and British Opens and four PGA championships. But Nicklaus, 40, has not won a tournament since July 1978, and last year he dropped to 71st on the list of money winners after 18 years in the top five. His place on top has been taken by Tom Watson, 30, whose Huck Finn freckles and gentle demeanor mask a competitive fire as fierce as any the game has known...
...until the day before the Feb. 27 dress rehearsal. "It was like we had just barely moved into a house, but were having 150 people for dinner," says Linda Atkinson. At 8 p.m. the audience was in place in the 250-seat theater of Marymount Manhattan College on East 71st Street, which the Phoenix calls home. Saks gave a little speech, asking for consideration: "Things are pretty rough, and we may have to stop. Please be patient and give the actors your sympathy. They're out here with no net." No one fell...
With those words, spoken in the informal, no-nonsense style that had endeared her to her subjects throughout a 31-year reign, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told a national television audience that she would abdicate on her 71st birthday this April 30. The occasion for the surprise announcement: the 42nd birthday last week of Crown Princess Beatrix, who will succeed her mother on the throne...
Then, after nine minutes and 42 seconds of exhausting, furious overtime action, Cornell's Nethery scored his 22nd goal and 71st point of the season to end one of the most thrilling hockey games in recent Harvard history...