Word: casper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wyoming: Starting out as the underdog, Incumbent Democrat Gale McGee, 49, has come on strong against Casper Geologist John S. Wold, 48, a Goldwater man. Though McGee is suspect as a liberal and a former university professor, he has a slender edge...
...putter before a nationwide TV audience. Right up until the final hole, his awkward but accurate style kept him in red hot contention. On the 18th hole, he needed a 25-footer for a total of 285 that, as it turned out, would have tied him with Billy Casper for the $5,300 top prize. But then his touch left him. He missed the 25-footer, blew his second putt, finally settled for seventh money of $1,400, behind Casper and five other players. Even then he did better than Arnold Palmer, who wound up shooting a 293, was later...
Derailed. In Casper. Wyo., a master of ceremonies at a state trucking association meeting was roundly booed when he asked members to join him in a rollicking chorus of I've Been Working on the Railroad...
...leather grips of his clubs. BUt Rosburg (5 ft. 11 in., 185 Ibs.), a second baseman at Stanford in his college days, nonetheless has power off the tee and a pool shark's touch on the green. Last year he won the P.G.A., finished a stroke behind Winner Casper in the Open. Rosburg is now grimly trying to conquer a problem even more serious than his physical ailments: an explosive temper that usually drives him into one miserable round per tournament...
...golfer, without a family in tow, must spend about $12,000 a year. To get by, many a young golfer sells shares of himself to backers who pay him around $200 a week, take back most of his earnings for the first few years. One notably sound investment: Billy Casper, who got an allowance totaling about $24,000 during a two-year period, paid a profit...