Word: champ
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five were deadlocked for the lead with 69s. One of them, of course, was Palmer. "Uninteresting," he called his round. Another was South Africa's Gary Player, despite an attack of tonsillitis that left him croaking like a bullfrog. And what of Nicklaus, the defending champ, the people's choice? He settled for a one-underpar 71-not bad, considering that the longest putt he sank all day was a seven-footer. "The ball went over the hole and around the hole," he muttered, "but never into the hole...
There should still be several exciting events. In the broad jump, the Crimson's Chris Ohiri, Aggrey Awori, and Chris Pardee go against Dick Maiberger, IC4A champ a year ago. High jumper Kevin O'Brien has done 6 ft. 8 in. and should give Pardee some competition in his speciality...
...claim that he had packed the bandages on Dempsey's fists with plaster before the 1919 bout in which Dempsey gave Jess Willard a painful beating. Dempsey had no knowledge of the deed, Kearns said, and when SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approached Dempsey before printing the Kearns story, the old champ hotly denied the whole thing. His denial was printed along with Kearns's story...
...roulette wheels, chemin de fer and blackjack were going full tilt. At one table a gambler toyed with $1,200 worth of chips; hovering over the dice was a Sidney Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call it the Riviera...
...fact, but the All is nevertheless an extraordinary airplane, a technical generation ahead of any of its competitors. Lockheed's famed designer Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson started building the ship in 1959 as a successor to the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Though it was the altitude champ of its day, the U-2 flew so slowly (500 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft.) that the Russians were eventually able to shoot one down. The All was specifically designed to fly high enough and fast enough to avoid trouble...