Word: archers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Winners of golf's "big four" tournaments (Tony Jacklin, British Open; George Archer, Masters; Orville Moody, U.S. Open; and Ray Floyd, P.G.A.) compete at Firestone Country Club, Akron. Final round Sunday...
Detective Lew Archer has never been more moralistic or more maudlin. He may have his difficulties extracting the evidence, but he grows increasingly adept at producing facial contortions in his interlocutors. Under his gaze, faces "darken" or "work with thought"; eyes grow "misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress" or become "abstract, like a hawk...
...Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...
...thinking about joining the space program, but decided that he needed more education. After getting his doctorate from M.I.T. in 1963?46 years after his father had received his bachelor's degree there?Aldrin was selected for the third group of astronauts. He is married to the former Joan Archer of Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. They have three children: Michael, 13, Janice, almost 12, and Andrew J., just...
...still lives on the ranch with his wife and two daughters. He does his muscle-toning exercises, thrives on health foods and sleeps on a mattress reinforced with wooden planks. In this atmosphere, the colorful George Archer unfolds. "I love the peace and quiet of the ranch," he says. "The rest of the world is a rat race...