Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split at Penn puts Harvard's record at 6-1 going into Monday's Greater Boston Open at Weston Country Club. The Crimson won the crown last year...
...Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin on 12-lb. line off Piñas Bay, Panama-thereby breaking a year-old record held by none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club and limited to "those anglers who, unaided, set the hooks, fight and bring to gaff a fish weighing ten times the wet test of the line used...
...eight years, only 164 anglers around the world have qualified for the Ten-to-One Club. Notable among them is Florida's Stu Apte, 37, a Pan American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
...look very impressive. A fellow named Larry Shepard, pitching coach last year of the Philadelphia Phillies, is managing the Pittsburgh Pirates in place of Danny Murtaugh, and 30-odd other coaches have switched jobs. Yankee Manager Ralph Houk was crowing about the new faces on his ball club-six all told, with three in the starting line-up-and his new go-go offense...
...fall a day earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going to break." And break it finally did, unleashing a wall...