Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voted Putter of the Year last season by the golf writers, describes his form on the greens as "a basic squatting position," a technique he developed as a caddie in San Francisco. It served him so well that for three years in a row, he was lowest-scoring amateur in the city's Lucky International Open and soon had himself a sponsor, Eugene Selvage, a retired brewery president. Archer was installed at Selvage's 5,000-acre Hereford ranch in Gilroy, Calif., where he painted fences and cleaned out the barns in the morning and played golf...
Arthur Ashe, the top-ranked amateur tennis player in the U.S., will meet with students in Lowell House today...
Keen Dryden, star goalie for Cornell University, made his first appearance in the World Amateur Hockey Tournament in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, leading Canada to a 1-0 shutout victory over the winless United states squad. The setback was the Americans' seventh...
...Amateur athletes are not his only patients as he has also helped many professionals. "It has always thrilled me to see a fallen, injured but unbeaten athlete first get up and walk, and then run, and finally compete with the best," he said...
...turned his back on a footlight fame that shines far beyond Italy. Son of a recently retired railroad worker, Fo was an enthusiastic amateur actor in his youth, appearing in student plays while studying architecture in Milan. At 24 he worked up a one-man act reciting monologues. His first nationwide success was a three-act tragi-comedy that examined the making of a hero, coming to the conclusion that the hero is only a creation of the "big boss," who used him to keep the workers distracted while the boss exploited them. His greatest hit, written...