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...been cracked, the possibilities are endless. They could, for instance, give Phil Rodgers the Tannenbaum Award for trying to play his ball out of a spruce tree, taking a quadruple-bogey 8 in the process, and blowing the 1962 U.S. Open. Arnie Palmer ought to be a cinch for a Master Mariner's badge after the six strokes he took in the surf and rocks off Pebble Beach, Calif., last January. And how about a Diamond in the Rough for Bobby Nichols, who drove into the rough on nine out of 18 holes at this year's P.G.A...
...refute the charge, Burns flew with reporters to the island, marched them into the Bank of Nova Scotia branch on Bay Street, and proved to everyone's satisfaction that Holley's documents were phony. From then on, Burns's election was a cinch...
Alabama (10 electoral votes): Lyndon Johnson's name is not even on the ballot. A cinch for Goldwater...
...unveiled "photocopies" of bank ledgers purporting to show that Democratic Candidate Haydon Burns, 52, Jacksonville's segregationist mayor, had $1,215,690 stashed in Nassau. Burns denied it, flew with reporters to Nassau, proved to their satisfaction that Holley's documents were phony, came home a near cinch to replace outgoing Democrat Farris Bryant...
Taft is trying to unseat Democratic Senator Stephen Young, 75, who startled Ohio back in 1958 when he managed to upset Republican Senator John Bricker. Most political observers figured in the past that Taft was a cinch to clobber Young. But as of last week, the Taft-Young race was surprisingly tight. Taft's big worry is not Steve Young but Barry Goldwater. who could lose Ohio by such a whopping margin that he might drag Taft down to defeat...