Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in Augusta, Ga., Mickey and the rest of the girls got together for the 25th Titleholders championship, the ladies' equivalent of the Masters-except in cash. When Palmer won the Masters last month, he collected $20,000, and the rest of the field divvied up another $110,000. Total prize money at the Titleholders...
...endless. Traffic is banished from streets along the route, and 250,000 spectators line the curbs five deep in spots. Newspapers run extras, and TV and radio carry the scene into thousands of Boston homes. Why not? Where else could Sam Oellet, a 59-year-old janitor from Augusta, Me., put on his long-johns and run in the same race with a barefoot 17-year-old? And where else could a fat man in a sweatshirt with MCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS written across the front swap liniment with an Olympic champion...
Over & Around. Not last week. Two days of rain washed out most of the practice rounds, but on opening day, the Georgia dogwood glistened in a warm spring sun, and the pros responded by giving the tough old Augusta course the worst first-day flogging in its history. In all, 15 players broke par (72), and at day's end five were deadlocked for the lead with 69s. One of them, of course, was Palmer. "Uninteresting," he called his round. Another was South Africa's Gary Player, despite an attack of tonsillitis that left him croaking like...
...GEORGIA. In 1952, says G.O.P. National Committeeman Robert Snodgrass, Georgia's Republican organization could fit "in somebody's hatband." Today there are organizations in 130 of 159 counties. Republicans have elected two city councilmen in Atlanta, another in Augusta, two state representatives, four state senators, and they are contesting several congressional races this fall. All this has gotten the Democrats out of their hammocks. They recently opened their first fulltime state headquarters in Atlanta. "Let's face it," says one Georgia Democrat, "it's the first time we ever...
...older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled his fingers until they looked, someone said, "like sausages left too long on the broiler." To top it off, somebody swiped his favorite eleven-year-old putter in Augusta last April...