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...least one expert was already satisfied. "I'd have to go with Weatherly-she's the all-round boat," said Briggs Cunningham, who skippered Columbia to victory over Britain's Sceptre in the 1958 America's Cup. "It's hard to think that the cup committee would go for a boat as weak as Nefertiti has proved in light...
...immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond likened the Prime Minister's "all-round slaughter" to "the Borgias on one of their more unsavory evenings...
...told me, 'I know it. Now be quiet." At 16, Nicklaus won his first major tournament, the Ohio Open, from a full field of professionals-shooting a record first round 64 and leading all the way. Meanwhile, he was making quite a reputation for himself as an all-round athlete. "When he was in junior high," recalls his father, "he told me he wanted to play football. I told him, 'Aw, you're not fast enough.' One night he came home to dinner and casually asked if I was going to the track meet that night...
...there seemed little hope now of doing more than feeding and clothing the Chinese people and supplying them with the barest necessities. The Communist leaders completely reversed the old policy of giving priority to heavy industry, which had nearly wrecked China's agriculture; the new demand was for "all-round balance" between branches of the economy "in the order of agriculture, light industry and heavy industry...
Cash blasted 41 HR's, knocked in 132 runs, and ran second to Mantle with a slugging average of 662. Sports Illustrated demonstrates that "Stormin' Norman" led the league in both the number and percentage of times he reached base. Undoubtedly Cash was the league's best all-round hitter last year...