Word: championing
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...32ND ANNUAL MASTERS TOURNAMENT (CBS, 3:45-6 p.m.). Live coverage of the third round from Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club. Defending Champion Gay Brewer competes against 85 of the world's leading professional and amateur golfers. Final round of the tournament will be shown tomorrow...
After sweeping past the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern semi-finals, the Celtics crushed the defending champion 76ers, 127-118, last Friday night in the opening game of the best-of-seven series...
Overall, the squad should be favored to repeat as champion of the Greater Boston League. Coach Shepard is not as confident about challenging Dartmouth for the Eastern League title. In addition, he feels that Princeton and Army will be especially tough opponents...
...cost of capital goods is climbing. Take airplanes: from $1,000,000 for a propeller DC-6 to $7,000,000 for a 707 jet to about $40 million for an SST. Modern superhighways cost more than $2,000,000 a mile. Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman George Champion notes that in U.S. factories, capital investment per production worker has risen from $550 a century ago to almost $20,000 today; in the petroleum-refining industry, the figure is more than $250,000. The capital investment in a medium-sized U.S. farm is about $80,000-double what...
...last week's twelve-hour endurance race at Sebring, Fla., the one-two finish of the fast new Porsche prototypes was almost a foregone conclusion. But the performance of ex-Road Racing Champion Roger Penske's Chevrolet Camaros, which placed third and fourth, was a startling surprise. The Camaro, after all, is a standard road car, not a finely tuned racer. Penske's entries were no run-of-the-showroom models, to be sure; at a cost approaching $25,000 apiece, each machine had been modified for racing with the addition of everything from a souped...