Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luverne P. Hinson Augusta...
...city savored Eisenhower down in Augusta. "Golf?" complained...
Take heart, you runners. Time was when the American Presidents reserved congratulatory calls for more formal sports. Golfer Dwight Eisenhower had a preference for Augusta Masters champions; Richard Nixon was fond of Super Bowl coaches. And then last week there was Jimmy Carter calling Boston after watching the 83rd running of the best-known U.S. marathon. White House operators tracked down three-time Winner Bill Rodgers at his running-goods store in Brighton. "Hi," said jogging Jimmy, offering congrats and asking about other finishers. The President also invited Rodgers to a White House dinner next month honoring visiting Japanese Premier...
While golf's high society was hob-nobbing on Magnolia Lane at the Augusta National this weekend, the Harvard golf team was taking a soggy stroll on the Yale golf course in the Big Three Match with Princeton and Yale...
...chipped silver disc about the size of a dime. On one side, it is stamped with a cross; on the other, with a stylized animal head. Found in 1961 by an amateur archaeologist named Guy Mellgren, the coin was turned over Animal head to the Maine State Museum in Augusta four years ago and described as a 12th century English coin. But Riley Sunderland, a retired military historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with Peter Seaby, a noted British numismatist. After examining photographs, Seaby...