Word: btfsplk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third place and $8,300 in the next day's playoff. In last week's Tournament of Champions at the Desert Inn Country Club, Gay had a five-stroke lead with only 18 holes to go, and Las Vegas bookmakers were offering 7 to 1 that even Btfsplk Brewer could not blow that $20,000 title. They should have known better. Palmer shot a spectacular 69-eagling the 586-yd. fifth hole when he knocked his No. 3 wood second shot to within 8 ft. of the pin-and Gay ballooned...
Running against Wallace as Lyndon Johnson's proxy in this week's Maryland presidential primary, Brewster called Wallace a "trespasser," a "stumble-bum," and "a dangerous joke." And as for bringing on trouble Wallace's name might as well have been Joe Btfsplk...
...Jack Btfsplk...
...time last week, Richard Nixon could have been taken for legendary Joe Btfsplk, the creature out of L'il Abner who always walks under a cloud. There was his trouble on the TV debate with Kennedy. Rain dogged him from Illinois to New York to Massachusetts. Chowder fog slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm...
...Btfsplk's cloud had its spots of silver lining. Flying from Chicago into Memphis, Nixon got the biggest crowds in the city's history, outdrawing Democrat Kennedy's visit the week before. Down on the Mississippi waterfront, crowds twice as great as Kennedy's clogged the street for a block to hear Nixon. Rain, started falling, umbrellas snapped open, but no one left. Nixon spoke out on civil rights, and when he said "Let's make our country the shining example for all the world to see of equality for all," many whites cheered along...