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Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Victory at Verdun | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: The Sleeping Car Murder | 5/25/1966 | See Source »

Christopher had his own room with a double-decker bunk. With both beds free, less adventurous types probably would have found the lower bunk more convenient. But not Pardee. He deliberately chose the upper berth, I think, so that he could leap up and land on his back...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Pardee--The Upward Urge | 4/26/1966 | See Source »

Which is, as they say, food for thought. In a recent issue of WAR ACTION comic books, a story about Vietnam concludes with a wounded G.I. in a hospital bunk grinning up at the officer who has just commended him. "Well, Sir" he says, "It's just like the Sarge told us back at the base: It's only a little war--but it's the only...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: The Ballads of the Green Berets | 3/30/1966 | See Source »

Until that moment, Eliot's performance was noteworthy for two defensive stands after Elephant backs fumbled first on their five, in the second quarter. But with four seconds to play, quarterback Bunk Reed lofted a 40-yard spiral that his favorite target, end Joe Pawlak, hauled in as he crossed the goal line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Champs Defeat Leverett, 13-6; Dunster, Eliot Down Yale Opponents | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

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