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Yesterday afternoon, Vik, who has earned the nickname "Captain Ajax" from his teammates, finished second in the Ivy League individual golf title, two strokes behind Dartmouth's Peter Tervainen...
Whether he is playing in this Andalusian golfing paradise or on New England's windburned fairways. Vik seems to come up with the clutch round. His second round 69 yesterday was not quite good enough, but nevertheless, ole Captain Ajax...
...still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown into his skull like an owl through an open window. He wanted to find Troy, the fortified city to which Paris abducted Helen, and which the Achaean heroes Menelaus, Agamemnon, Ajax, Achilles and Odysseus be sieged for ten years...
John J. Burke and Joseph M. Segel have been running multimillion-dollar businesses, but they run them no more. Burke, 50, spent last week with his family, skiing on their favorite mountain, Ajax, at Aspen, Colo. Three weeks ago he resigned unexpectedly as president and chief executive of Automation Industries Inc., after "a difference in philosophy" with the company's founder-chairman. Segel, 42, prepared to leave the Franklin Mint, the world's largest producer of coins and medals for collectors, which he founded. He retires this week as chairman, five years after he voluntarily began easing...
...exposure, though, has helped some individual stars to cash in on international fame. There is no shinier soccer star in Europe than Ajax's high-scoring center forward Johan Cruyff (rhymes more or less with rife), 26, a sinewy young Dutchman with strong, quick legs and fluttering, long hair. His salary as a player-250,000 guilders a year-is among the highest in the sport...