Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guild enjoys no such cohesion. A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other. Though newsmen tend to champion the union movement in theory, they are hard to organize-as are most white-collar workers. Restless by nature, newsmen are generally unwilling to submit to the discipline of a union shop. Few Guild contracts call for a full union shop, but almost all I.T.U. contracts do. While the Guild has helped to raise the general salary scale, its "minimums" have tended in fact to become "maximums...
...Houston club pro and a cousin of onetime Masters Champion Jack Burke, Marr, 31, is typical of golf's second-magnitude stars. He started as a caddy, worked his way up to pro-shop flunky, golf-club and software salesman, caddy master and teaching pro before setting out five years ago on the tournament trail. He won $12,066 his first year, was up to $37,142 last year, and got his first real taste of glory when he sank a 30-ft. putt to tie Nicklaus for second place (behind Arnold Palmer) in the 1964 Masters...
...wasn't going to let him win. To hell with him." Dave promptly canned his putt. On the 18th he dropped his approach 3 ft. from the pin and got the shakes all over again. "I told myself, 'C'mon, make it, finish like a champion is supposed to finish. Don't putt short, just tap it in and walk off like a thief.' " He did, and headed for New York, where his wife was giving birth to Anthony Marr−named after St. Anthony, the patron saint of the poor, the pregnant...
...Marr hooked his drive into a fairway trap, while Nicklaus slammed one 300 yds deadcenter. But after all those years, Marr was not about to throw it away. With a beautiful recovery and approach, he salvaged his par, and Jack missed his birdie. That did it. The new P.G.A. champion, $25,-000 richer, was Dave Marr. Nicklaus settled for a $12,500 split of second and third money with Casper-not a bad week's work. Considering the caliber of the play,' the odds are always against any one golfer winning any one tournament. But whoever wins...
...about one-half mile in front of Graham Hill's B.R.M. and Dan Gurney's Brabham. Gulping champagne from the winner's trophy, the normally unemotional Clark crowed: "I'm happy as a king! This was the one that was missing! I am the world champion...