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...junta, however, showed no mercy to the beatniks who normally swarm into Greece each summer in search of fun and inexpensive living. From now on, declared Interior Minister Stylianos Pattakos, no traveler will be allowed to enter Greece if he has a beard, scruffy clothes, or less than...
Brother of Ralph Beard, three-time All-America guard at the University of Kentucky, Frank had ideas of following in his brother's footsteps until he discovered that the market for basketball players who were never going to grow past 6 ft. and 170 Ibs. was limited. He went to the University of Florida on a golf scholarship, turned pro after graduation. In 1963, his first full season on the tour, Beard earned $17,938, and he has progressed steadily upward ever since. His official winnings so far this season are $50,993; his unflappable, mechanical game reminds some...
There are two questions that anyone who has been following the pro golf scene this year has to ask himself. The first is: "Who is Frank Beard?" And the second is: "What ever happened to Jack Nicklaus...
Twice within a month-at the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions and at last week's Houston Champions International-Frank Beard, a bespectacled 28-year-old, has sunk a sizable putt on the 72nd green to beat Arnold Palmer for the winner's check. Considering that Palmer, at 37 and with $87,073 already in his till this year, is playing the best golf of his career, those two defeats are all the more remarkable because they were engineered by a virtual unknown who turned to golf because he was a failure at basketball...
...season at home, playing for Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Then, in 1962, former Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Sandy Amorós, who saved the 1955 World Series for the Bums with his spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero-to-Miami freedom shuttles that have ferried almost...